August 28, 2008
Purdue Punishes Professor Who Led Disputed Fusion Experiment
Purdue University has stripped a researcher of his named professorship and limited his mentor status with graduate students in response to what it deemed his "deplorable" actions regarding a controversial fusion experiment.
The sanctions continue a lengthy saga concerning Rusi P. Taleyarkhan, a professor of nuclear engineering, who captured worldwide attention in 2002 when he claimed that he had used intense sound waves to compress and heat bubbles to the point that hydrogen
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