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Too Hot to Handle - The Race for Cold Fusion
Frank Close
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Description for Too Hot to Handle - The Race for Cold Fusion
Hardback. Num Pages: 388 pages. BIC Classification: PD. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 25000.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Language
English
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
Number of Pages
388
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691635019
SKU
V9780691635019
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99-15
Reviews for Too Hot to Handle - The Race for Cold Fusion
"Frank Close has shown [care and industry] in recording, at first hand wherever possible, the whole story from the beginning. We possess too few detailed case-histories of science, and this is a very welcome addition. His best passages ... have a racy vigour; as in good thrillers, one can hardly wait to see what they will get up to next, ... Read more