Danielle Fong

Born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Fong dropped out of junior high school at age 12 to attend Dalhousie University. She graduated from Dalhousie in 2005 at 17 with first class honors in computer science and physics, after which she entered the Plasma Physics Department at Princeton University as a Ph.D. student, but later dropped out.

Upon taking leave from Princeton, Danielle co-founded LightSail Energy, where she serves as Chief Scientist. LightSail is developing inexpensive, grid-scale, efficient energy storage systems — the missing link in the plan to make the world's electrical grid green.