Sergio Focardi (1932 – 22 June 2013) was an Italian physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Bologna.http://www.magazine.unibo.it/Magazine/Notizie/2013/06/24/Lutto_in_Ateneo.htm Lutto in Ateneo: è scomparso Sergio Focardi (tr. Mourning at the University: Sergio Focardi is passed away)https://www.affaritaliani.it/culturaspettacoli/morto-fisico-italiano-sergio-focardi.html E' morto il grande fisico italiano Sergio Focardi (tr. Great Italian physicist Sergio Focardi is dead) Retrieved 15 September 2015Professori Emeriti. Department of Physics, University of Bologna. Retrieved 16 November 2011. He led the Department of Bologna of the (Italian) National Institute for Nuclear PhysicsDieci professori dell’Alma Mater diventano "emeriti". 26 April 2006. Retrieved 15 September 2015 and the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences at the University of Bologna.Ilaria Venturi. Fusione nucleare a freddo "A Bologna ci siamo riusciti" Sergio Focardi, professore emerito dell'Alma Mater, fisico di calibro, in passato preside della facoltà di Scienze. 14 January 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2015Preside fino al 1990 della facoltà di scienze matematiche, fisiche e naturali dell’Università di Bologna 24 June 2013.
In the early 1960s Focardi spent time at CERN in Geneva.
He was a member of the President's Board of the Italian Physical Society.Resoconto Annuale, Delle Attivitia 2010 . Società Italiana di Fisica, page 3.Presidente Luisa CIFARELLI Consiglio di Presidenza (President's Board) Alessandro BETTINI Simonetta CROCI Enzo DE SANCTIS (VicePresidente) Sergio FOCARDI Vincenzo GRASSO (segretario Cassiere) Guido PIRAGINO Angiolino STELLA From 1992 he had been working on cold fusion with nickel-hydrogen reactors.Franco, Foresta Martin. "la fusione fredda alla senese accende di nuovo la speranza". Corriere della Sera, 20 February 1994, page 31. From 2007 until his death, Focardi collaborated with inventor Andrea Rossi on the development of the Energy Catalyzer (E-Cat).Mats Lewan. Swedish physicists run the site Ecat.com . Ny Teknik. 18 November 2011Fabio Deotto. Fusione fredda realizzata a Bologna. Sarà vero? Wired, Italian edition. 19 January 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
Studies on nickel-hydrogen exothermal systems
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,"Siena scopre l' energia pulita Fusione fredda all' italiana?" Corriere della Sera, 19 February 1994, page 12.Franco, Foresta Martin. "La fusione fredda alla senese accende di nuovo la speranza". Corriere della Sera, 20 February 1994. and published on the peer-reviewed scientific journal Il Nuovo Cimento A.Fusione Fredda: esperimento a siena, interesse industria USA Adnkronos, 17 February 1994.Franco Prattico. La ' Bomba' di Siena La Repubblica, 18 February 1994.Oggi il grande annuncio dell’ Universita’ Toscana Corriere della Sera, 19 February 1994. Retrieved 15 September 2015.Stremmenos: “la fusione fredda risolverà molti problemi dell’umanità” Radio Città del Capo, 25 April 2011.Focardi S, Habel R, Piantelli F (January 1994). "Anomalous Heat Production in Ni-H Systems" Il Nuovo Cimento A, Volume 107 A, Number 1, 163–167.Battaglia, Daddi, Focardi, Gabbani, Montalbano, Piantelli, Sona, Veronesi. Neutron emission in Ni-H systems. Il Nuovo Cimento A (1971-1996), Volume 112, Number 9, 921–931. Retrieved on SpringerLink.
See also Energy Catalyzer
References
External links English transcript of "Sergio Focardi Presents TED Talk on Nickel/Hydrogen Reaction" (). English transcript of "A radio interview with Sergio Focardi, the father of Ni-H Cold-Fusion". Città del Capo Radio Metropolitana, Bologna, Italy, 5 April 2011. Original audio (in Italian, ). EV World podcast . Andrea Rossi speaks about his relationship with Sergio Focardi, beginning at 6 minutes and 20 seconds.