Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion
Gary Taubes
Documents the bizarre 1989 episode of 2 scientists who announced they had created a sustained nuclear-fusion reaction at room temperature & the ensuing scandal.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Random House (NY)
- Year
- 1993
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- Cold fusionScientific fraudmisconductNuclear physics
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyShortlisted(1993)
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