Steven Krivit wrote: > Walter Meyerhof, professor emeritus of physics, dies at 84 > http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/june7/meyerhof-060706.html > > Memorial services were held on Sunday, July 16, 2006 at 3:00 PM > in the Main Dining Room of the Stanford Faculty Club. > > "science advances ... " - Max Planck
----- Quote from the obit: In the late 1980s, Meyerhof criticized scientists at the University of Utah and Britain's University of Southampton who claimed to have achieved "cold fusion" - which if true could have solved the world's energy problems. When a respected engineering professor at Stanford, Robert Huggins, claimed to have confirmed one part of the cold fusion experiment, Meyerhof and others tried to reproduce it and failed. "Tens of millions of dollars are at stake, dear sister and brother, because one scientist put a thermometer in one place instead of the other," Meyerhof told an Associated Press reporter. ----- What do you think would have happened if Fleischmann and/or Pons, or anyone who successfully replicated cold fusion, had gone to Meyerhof to help him? Even after the above debacle. Would the history of cold fusion be any different? Is it too late today to convert a prominent skeptic? -Walter
