Too Hot to Handle : The Race for Cold Fusion /

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...

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Autor principal: Close, Frank (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Edición:Course Book
Colección:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1145
Temas:
Cold fusion > Research > Utah.
SCIENCE / History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • 1. The Greatest Discovery Since Fire
  • PART ONE: Genesis
  • 2. Nothing New Under the Sun
  • 3. The Sun on Earth
  • 4. Cold Fusion
  • 5. The Chemists
  • 6. The Dispute
  • 7. Harwell
  • PART TWO: Deuteronomy
  • 8. The First Reactions
  • 9. The Parting of the Waters
  • 10. Money
  • 11. The Caltech Story
  • 12. From Spring to Fall
  • 13. International Reactions
  • 14. Test-Tube Fusion: Science or Non-Science?
  • PART THREE: Revelations
  • 15. The Spy in the Lab
  • 16. Credibility
  • 17. 'It's Not Fusion'
  • 18. The First Anniversary
  • 19. Assessment
  • Appendices
  • Notes
  • Index

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