Frank Close, a leading physicist and talented popular science
writer, reveals the true story of the cold fusion controversy--a
story ignored until now in spite of the glare of publicity
surrounding Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons. On March 23, 1989,
these two Utah scientists held an astonishing press conference,
maintaining that they had succeeded, working in secret, in
harnessing atomic fusion. What was the basis for their claims to
have achieved cold fusion in a test tube in a basement laboratory,
while other scientists--using magnets as big as houses and
temperatures hotter than those in the center of the sun--were
failing to produce as much power as they were using? Why did
Fleischmann and Pons proclaim their "discovery" at a news
conference, when first announcements of scientific results are
almost always made within the scientific community? Why did the
full-blown media event inspired by their initial report cause
governments to reorient their research programs in hopes of
cornering the "new technology"? And why did some scientists
recklessly abandon their traditional painstaking methods in haste
to be first to prove or discredit the experiment? Acquainted at
first hand with investigations of cold fusion on two continents,
Close is uniquely qualified to probe the motivations behind
Fleischmann's and Pons's startling assertions and to explore the
intellectual and political turmoil that surrounded the cold fusion
debate.
Originally published in 1991.
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General
Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Princeton Legacy Library |
Release date: |
July 2014 |
First published: |
July 2014 |
Authors: |
Frank Close
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
388 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-60620-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Physics >
Atomic & molecular physics
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LSN: |
0-691-60620-X |
Barcode: |
9780691606200 |
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