Eugene Mallove
Eugene Mallove was a notable proponent and supporter of research into cold fusion. He authored the book Fire from Ice, which details the 1989 report of table-top cold fusion from Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann at the University of Utah. The book claims the team did produce "greater-than-unity" output energy in an experiment, which supposedly was successfully replicated on several occasions. Mallove claims that the results were suppressed through an organized campaign of ridicule from mainstream physicists. He was fatally beaten May 14, 2004 in Norwich, Connecticut, by an unknown assailant. His violent death was suspected by some to be related to the nature of his work, while the police officially suspected robbery as the motive.
In 2005, two previously-convicted criminals were arrested in connection with the killing. The case proceeded slowly, and the charges against the two men were dismissed on November 6, 2008, due to there being no forensic evidence linking them to the murder.
Other researchers in the field of cold fusion have claimed to be subjected to suppression via academic pressure as well as via lack of funding.
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