Galileo of our Time: In Memory of Dr. Eugene Mallove

May 17, 2004

Dr. Eugene Mallove - scientist, jounalist, educator, visionary, humanitarian and friend was mysteriously murdered on May 14 during an apparent robbery in the home of his parents. He was in the prime of his career at age 56.

This is a great loss which is just beginning to sink in. So prolific were his writings, so passionate was his expression, so unique were his connections between the scientific community and the new energy vision, he will be sorely missed. He is one of my heroes. It will be difficult to fill his shoes.

As chief science writer for MIT some fifteen years ago, he first got into the new energy game by investigating the controversial discovery of cold fusion in 1989 by University of Utah chemists, Drs. Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons. His investigative reports on the research of MIT nuclear physicists with a vested interest in hot fusion research revealed that they fraudulently reported their inability to replicate the original Pons-Fleischmann experiments. Their "unadjusted" findings actually reinforce the truth of the discovery. The efforts of these scientists and other establishment researchers at major universities to discredit cold fusion under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy will be remembered as a sad lesson in scientific ethics.

Risking everything, Gene Mallove resigned his position at MIT to reveal the truth about cold fusion regardless of ridicule and financial insecurity. His standards were always very high. He did not buy into fads and politics. His rigor could be very disarming to those toeing the line of the establishment and was an inspiration to all fellow heretics.

He wrote a book Fire from Ice which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. The facts revealed in that work led the great writer Arthur C. Clarke to conclude that the suppression of cold fusion was "one of the greatest scandals in the history of science."

He has been at it ever since. His authoritative books, his numerous editorials and writings in the successful magazine Infinite Energy, his support of the work through the offices of his New Energy Foundation and New Energy Research Laboratory, his many media appearances, and the excellent video/DVD "Fire from Water" underline the boldness with which he struck out on his mission, fearless about threats to his career which otherwise would have been secure. He stands alone in organizing and supporting the community of cold fusion scientists, which has grown to several hundred researchers from prestigious institutions, meeting annually and publishing in the best peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Against all odds, cold fusion has become a viable science with great potential because of the tireless and selfless efforts of this one man. He was a giant.

Visit www.infinite-energy.com; Mallove’s Universal Appeal for New Energy is posted at www.newenergymovement.org/html_orig/energy_appeal.htm.