There are reports decades before F&P about cold fusion, Filimonenko Ivan Stepanovich for example...
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nigel Dyer <l...@thedyers.org.uk> wrote: > > >> Over Christmas I met someone whilst out on a walk, got chatting, and >> found that they had been working on Palladium/Hydrogen systems in the >> 1960's, and had become aware that there was something odd going on. . . . > > > In his book, Mizuno said every electrochemist knew there were puzzling > thermal and nuclear anomalies with palladium deuterides. He himself > observed several. However, he eventually dismissed them as experimental > errors. He gives full credit to F&P for following up on these things and > producing them with far higher s/n ratios and reproducibility. He says this > discovery is theirs, and theirs alone. > > - Jed > >