In the spring of 1989, researchers at the University of Utah made an announcement that rocked the scientific community and is still making news today. Is cold fusion myth or reality, and if it does exist, as many scientists now secretly believe, why did its suggestion first meet with such hostility from within the scientific community and the media? In this book are the answers to these questions and many more - explaining the science involved while exposing the inside story of cold fusion. It is a disturbing tale of professional rivalry and mysterious wheeling and dealing in a high-stakes game.
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Mallove, a professional science writer, tells the history of recent cold fusion research from the dramatic Pons-Fleischmann announcement in March 1989 until approximately the fall of 1990. All the major twists and turns of the story are related with a modest amount of technical detail; it should be quite intelligible to laypeople. Mallove covers much the same ground at about the same level as Frank Close does in Too Hot To Handle ( LJ 5/15/91). However, there is a dramatic difference--Mallove is a firm believer in the cold fusion phenomenon; he is thus at the opposite end of the spectrum from Close. At the moment, the scientific consensus appears to be with the skeptics, but Mallove's book is nevertheless recommended for all libraries that have Close's. In tandem, the two volumes will give readers an interesting view of a continuing scientific controversy.
- Jack W. Weigel, Univ. of Michigan Lib., Ann Arbor
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Jack W. Weigel, Univ. of Michigan Lib., Ann Arbor
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Mallove brings dramatically to life the human side of this important scientific controversy, which has tapped the emotions of its scientific participants in a way usually typical of major scientific revolutions. Fire from Ice is highly recommended reading for anyone who is interested in the nature of scientific controversy and scientific change. I frankly could not put the book down once I started it." -- Dr. Frank Sulloway, former MacArthur Fellow Science historian, MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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This Book Will be a Collectors Item,
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This review is from: Fire from Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor (Paperback)
Eugene Mallove tragically lost his life earlier this year in a simple act of barbarism. So odd that a man who devoted his life to one of the most neglected and abstract fields of science in the late 20th Century would die in such a senseless manner. Luckily, Gene's lifes work will not be a waste, as Cold Fusion is finally starting to achieve the recognition it rightly deserves. It will be pinoneers like Dr. Mallove who will be remembered for keeping the Cold Fusion flame alive during some of its darkest moments. Buy and read this book, it's sure to be a collectors item soon, as Cold Fusion will soon emerge as a mainstream field of science and Dr. Mallove will be exonerated for persuing such a taboo field of science.
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Finally a good book about cold fusion,
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This review is from: Fire from Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor (Wiley Science Editions) (Hardcover)
Great boot about cold fusion. Mallove is not a crackpot that the cold fusion skeptics can throw under the rug. Gives the general picture about cold fusion and findings from "respected labs". Very good.
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A must read!,
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This review is from: Fire from Ice: Searching for the Truth Behind the Cold Fusion Furor (Paperback)
I am a Coast to Coast AM listener. I would like to have everyone read his book. It is remarkable. I think that the leaders of the world should all have a copy! I would also like to send my deepest prayers to the family of this beloved author, Eugene Mallove. He and his work will be greatly missed. Blessings to his family and friends.
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"THE SNOW-COVERED WASATCH MOUNTAINS, so beautiful and unreal in late March, glistened against the intense blue of the skies above Salt Lake City." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
University of Utah, Los Alamos, Martin Fleischmann, United States, Stanley Pons, Steve Jones, Plasma Fusion Center, Salt Lake City, Deseret News, Oak Ridge, New York Times, John Bockris, American Physical Society, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Julian Schwinger, Richard Petrasso, Brigham Young University, The Wall Street Journal, Kevin Wolf, Peter Hagelstein, Salt Lake Tribune, James Brophy, Jerry Bishop, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, American Chemical Society New!
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University of Utah, Los Alamos, Martin Fleischmann, United States, Stanley Pons, Steve Jones, Plasma Fusion Center, Salt Lake City, Deseret News, Oak Ridge, New York Times, John Bockris, American Physical Society, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Julian Schwinger, Richard Petrasso, Brigham Young University, The Wall Street Journal, Kevin Wolf, Peter Hagelstein, Salt Lake Tribune, James Brophy, Jerry Bishop, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, American Chemical Society New!
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- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn on page 278, and Back Matter
- Fusion: The Search for Endless Energy by Robin Herman on page 26, and Back Matter
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- The Rebirth of Cold Fusion: Real Science, Real Hope, Real Energy by Steven B. Krivit on 6 pages
- Carbon Dating, Cold Fusion, and a Curve Ball by David D. Moon on page 82, page 84, and Back Matter
- Nuclear Transmutation: The Reality of Cold Fusion by Dr. Tadahiko Mizuno in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Atomic West (Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series in Western History and Biography) by Bruce William Hevly on page 154
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