Paul Palmer (physicist)

E. Paul Palmer (1926–2011) was a Brigham Young University physicist who specialized in geophysics. He coined the term "cold fusion". However he was an early critic of Fleischmann and Pons's claims to have developed a useful method of cold fusion.

Palmer served in the US Navy during World War II. He later served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the East Central States Mission (primarily Tennessee and Kentucky). He received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Utah.

Sources

  • [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE1DF103FF93BA15757C0A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all New York Times, April 28, 1989]
  • [http://www.physics.byu.edu/directory.aspx?personID=50 BYU faculty listing]
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20080506023241/http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/131history.html
  • http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12216633.500-science-rocks-reveal-the-signature-of-fusion-at-the-centreof-the-earth-.html
  • [https://www.heraldextra.com/lifestyles/2011/dec/05/edward-paul-palmer/ Provo Herald obituary for Palmer]

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