Sergio Focardi | |
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Born | 1932 |
Died | 22 June 2013 |
Nationality | Italian |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | University of Bologna in Bologna |
Sergio Focardi (1932 – 22 June 2013) was an Italian physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Bologna.[1][2][3] He led the Department of Bologna of the (Italian) National Institute for Nuclear Physics[4][5] and the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences at the University of Bologna.[6][7]
In the early 1960s Focardi spent time at CERN[8] in Geneva.
He was a member of the President's Board of the Italian Physical Society.[9] From 1992 he had been working on cold fusion with nickel-hydrogen reactors.[10] From 2007 until his death, Focardi collaborated with inventor Andrea Rossi on the development of the Energy Catalyzer (E-Cat).[11][12][13][14]
In the early 90s Sergio Focardi, together with physicists Roberto Habel and Francesco Piantelli, started to develop a nickel-hydrogen exothermal reactor. The results of their research were presented in 1994,[16][17] and published on the peer-reviewed scientific journal Il Nuovo Cimento A.[18][19][20][21][22][23][24]