Too Hot to Handle by Frank Close

Too Hot to Handle by Frank Close

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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

"Frank Close has shown [care and industry] in recording, at first hand wherever possible, the whole story from the beginningWe 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, and as in good thrillers, what they get up to is frequently worse than expected.... The book should be read as an exemplary tale by all who are concerned about the conflicting demands of scientific integrity, personal ambition and public interest." * Nature *

Frank Close ist Professor fur Physik an der Oxford University und Fellow des Exeter College. Der ehemalige Vizeprasident der British Association for the Advancement of Science war zuvor Leiter der Abteilung fur Theoretische Physik am Rutherford Appleton Laboratory und Head of Communications and Public Education am CERN. Er hat etliche popularwissenschaftliche Bucher geschrieben, darunter zuletzt The Void (deutsch bei Spektrum Akademischer Verlag: Das Nichts verstehen) und den ebenfalls ins Deutsche ubersetzten Bestseller Lucifer's Legacy, und ist fur seine auergewohnlichen Beitrage zur Popularisierung der Physik mit der Kelvin-Medaille des Institute of Physics in London ausgezeichnet worden. Zu seinen weiteren Sachbuchern zahlen Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, The Cosmic Onion, The Particle Explosion (deutsch bei Spektrum Akademischer Verlag: Spurensuche im Teilchenzoo), Too Hot to Handle (deutsch: Das heie Rennen um die kalte Fusion) und The Particle Odyssey. Close ist mit dem Order of the British Empire (OBE) ausgezeichnet worden.

Frank Close uber sein neues Buch: www.meettheauthor.co.uk/bookbites/1804.html

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Titel	Too Hot to Handle
Autor	Frank Close
Serie	Princeton Legacy Library
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1991-04-21
Seitenanzahl	392
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