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'Cold fusion' chemist Martin Fleischmann dies
Martin Fleischmann, the chemist who with Stanley Pons claimed in 1989 to have achieved "cold fusion", has died.
The claims set the science world alight, because the simple experiment would have been the source of cheap and practically limitless energy.
But the results could never be replicated, and the idea of fusion in normal laboratory conditions is now almost completely discredited.
Dr Fleischmann's son reported that he had died on Friday, aged 85.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19180011
