George H. Miley
{{short description|American physicist}}
George H. Miley (born 1933) is a professor emeritus of physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Miley is a Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He was Senior NATO Fellow from 1994 to 1995, received the Edward Teller Medal in 1995, the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Award in Fusion Technology in 2003 and the Radiation Science and Technology Award in 2004. He holds several patents.[http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=ininventor:%22George+H.+Miley%22#pq=ininventor%3A%22george+h.+miley%22&hl=en&cp=20&gs_id=j&xhr=t&q=ininventor%3A%22George+H.+Miley%22&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&tbm=pts&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=ininventor:%22George+H.+Miley%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=1f011ed5d9870b03&biw=1226&bih=589 George H. Miley] (Google Patents)
Academic career
In 1955, Miley received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering/Physics from Carnegie Mellon University. He obtained his M.Sc. (1956) and his Ph.D. (1959), both in Nuclear/Chemical Engineering, from the University of Michigan. {{citation needed|date=April 2012}}
In 1961, he became assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and advanced to associate professor in 1964, and to professor of nuclear and electrical engineering in 1967. He has directed the Fusion Studies Lab since 1975 and has chaired the Nuclear Engineering Program from 1983 to 1995. Since August 2010 he is professor emeritus. {{citation needed|date=April 2012}}
He was editor-in-chief of the American Nuclear Society's journal Fusion Science and Technology until his retirement in 2000.{{cite web|title=ANS announces new editor of Fusion Technology journal|url=http://www.new.ans.org/pi/media/releases/r-968216400}} He was also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Plasma Physics and Laser and Particle Beams.[http://fsl.ne.uiuc.edu/journals/index.html Journals] of the [http://fsl.ne.uiuc.edu/ Fusion Studies Laboratory], University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
His work Direct Conversion of Nuclear Radiation Energy was written in 1970 and sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission.Heinrich Hora, George Hunter Miley: Edward Teller lectures: lasers and inertial fusion energy, World Scientific Press, 2005, {{ISBN|1-86094-468-X}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=O1k6qxZvn6MC&pg=PA184 p. 184]
Cold fusion and LENR
Miley has investigated nuclear transmutations in thin films of metals based on earlier work on the Patterson Power Cell, supported by Clean Energy Technologies, Incorporated (CETI).G.H. Miley, J.A. Patterson: Nuclear transmutations in thin-film nickel coatings undergoing electrolysis, Infinite Energy, [http://www.infinite-energy.com/iemagazine/issue9/index.html no. 9, July/August 1996], p. 19–32{{unreliable source?|date=March 2012}} Miley is also active in research on low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) in thin metal films.George H. Miley, Heinrich Hora, Andrei Lipson, Sung-O. Kim, Nie Luo, Carlos H. Costano G., Taeho Woo. "Progress in thin-film LENR research at the University of Illinois". In The 9th International Conference on Cold Fusion, Condensed Matter Nuclear Science, 2002. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press.Xiaoling Yang, George H. Miley, Heinz Hora. [http://link.aip.org/link/?APCPCS/1103/450/1 "Condensed Matter Cluster Reactions in LENR Power Cells for a Radical New Type of Space Power Source"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120714111519/http://link.aip.org/link/?APCPCS/1103/450/1 |date=2012-07-14 }}. American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, March 16, 2009, vol. 1103, pp. 450–458.
After his retirement he participated in the 2011 World Green Energy Symposium, which was held in October 2011 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[http://www.worldgreenenergysymposium.us/newsroom.html "2011 World Green Energy Symposium"]. October 19–21, 2011.{{SPS|date=April 2012}} During a Symposium session titled "Cold Fusion – A Discussion", Miley reported that he has constructed a LENR device that continuously produces several hundred watts of power.[https://www.youtube.com/user/kiholobay#p/u/2/N1m2wQevFAY Cold Fusion – A Discussion] (Video). Miley's report begins at 5 minutes and 30 seconds and his statement about his LENR device begins at 17 minutes and 55 seconds.{{SPS|date=April 2012}}
Publications
;Books:
- George H. Miley: Direct Conversion of Nuclear Radiation Energy, American Nuclear Society, Illinois, 1971, ASIN: B00173FBUI
- George H. Miley: Fusion Energy Conversion, American Nuclear Society, Illinois, 1976, {{ISBN|978-0-89448-008-9}}
- A. A. Harms, K. F. Schoepf, G. H. Miley, D. R. Kingdon: Principles of Fusion Energy: An Introduction to Fusion Energy for Students of Science and Engineering, World Scientific, 2000, {{ISBN|978-981-238-033-3}}
- Heinrich Hora, George Hunter Miley: Edward Teller lectures: lasers and inertial fusion energy, World Scientific, 2005, {{ISBN|1-86094-468-X}}
- George H. Miley: Life at the Center of the Energy Crisis: A Technologist's Search for a Black Swan, World Scientific, 2013, {{ISBN|978-981-4436-48-9}}
References
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External links
- [https://npre.illinois.edu/people/profile/ghmiley George H Miley | Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering | UIUC]
- [https://www.ece.illinois.edu/directory/profile.asp?ghmiley Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120129135723/http://www.ece.illinois.edu/directory/profile.asp?ghmiley |date=2012-01-29 }} and [https://web.archive.org/web/20111130031023/http://www.ae.illinois.edu/people/faculty/miley.html faculty page], University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
- [http://fsl.ne.uiuc.edu/publications/FSL%20Reports%202003-Present.pdf Fusion Studies Laboratory. Publication List, 2003–Present]
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