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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online British chemist, Martin Fleischmann, who stunned the world with his claim of achieving nuclear fusion in a glass bottle in 1989, has died after a long illness. He was 85 years old. Nicholas Fleischmann, his son, said he died Friday, August 3, 2012, at his home in Tisbury, England. Fleischmann had suffered from Parkinson's disease for many years. Fleischmann was born in Czechoslovakia, but fled the country in 1938 after the Nazi...
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rum & Humble, in its 21st year of operation under the leadership of industry veteran Martin Fleischmann, announced today an agreement to handle talent bookings and production for the 2012 Santa Monica Pier summer concert series. The contract continues to build on the success of the firm's inaugural run of concerts at the Pier from July through September 2011. Last month saw the launch of WIRE:t/a/p--an exploration of the creative...
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Purdue University is investigating complaints about a scientist who claimed to have achieved "cold fusion" using sound waves to make bubbles in a test tube, the university said on Wednesday. Nuclear engineer Rusi Taleyarkhan's work has been controversial since he published a study in 2002 claiming to have achieved the Holy Grail of energy production -- nuclear fusion at room temperature. Nuclear fusion is the...
