'Cold fusion' co-discoverer Martin Fleischmann dies at 85

British chemist Martin Fleischmann, who surprised the world by announcing that it has obtained nuclear fusion in a glass bottle, has died after a long illness.

His son Nicholas said he died Friday at home in England.

Electrochemistry Fleischmann was one of the leaders in the world when he and his partner Stanley Pons announced in 1989 that had led to the merger, the nuclear process that heats the sun, in an experiment at the University of Utah.

The reaction occurred at room temperature was reported, and seemed to emit little radiation, a huge contrast to the still ongoing search for fusion with conventional means, in billions of dollars of reactors at temperatures of millions of degrees.

The announcement sparked hopes of a shortcut to fusion as a source of clean, renewable energy and economic development.

However, when other scientists were quick to replicate success, no more junk science, and the "cold fusion" was quickly labeled. Physicists Fleischmann accused of incompetence and fraud.

Pons and he continued to work - and defend - their results, but were discouraged by the way their work is ignored by scientists after the disaster of 1989.

"This was a terrible experience," said Fleischmann Telepolis German news site in 2005.

Search the "cold fusion" continues on the shores of the scientific world.

Fleischmann was born in Czechoslovakia. When the Nazis occupied the country in 1938, the family fled to England. To obtain a legal status for the move, Fleischmann was adopted by a British title.

He studied chemistry at Imperial College London and became known for a good knowledge of mathematics and fantasy unusual for a chemist.

He took over the Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton in 1967 and gave him international fame. He was a member of the Royal Society of Great Britain, the Academy of Sciences.

After leaving college, he spent much time working on experiments with his friend Pons, an American.

Fleischmann was a "genius of exploration," said Michael role played a friend of Fleischmann and research professor of physics at the Naval Postgraduate School in California.

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Norco Ranch founder Harry Eisen dies at 95

Harry Eisen, a Holocaust survivor born in Poland, founded Norco Ranch Inc., in western Riverside County in 1950 and built one of the largest egg producers in the state, processors and distributors, has died. He was 95 years.

Eisen died July 19 of complications from pulmonary disease at home in Beverly Hills, said his daughter, Frances Miller.

When Eisen and his wife, of Polish origin, Hilda, who moved to Los Angeles in 1948, had no money and spoke no English.

Eisen had directed a sausage factory and three points in Warsaw before the Second World War, but his lack of English could only get a job cleaning the barrel of meat in a hot-dog factory in Vernon .

However, after saving the money to buy his first 100 chickens, has launched an operation of the depot in Arcadia and eggs sold in their neighborhood.

The language was a barrier to launch your new business. As Eisen jokingly told the Riverside Press-Enterprise in 1993: "I spoke to my Jewish and hens laid their eggs."

The Norco Eisen increasingly moved its operation in 1950.

In 2000, when he sold Eisen Norco Ranch Inc., based in Missouri Moark, had a workforce of around 450 people and a list of major clients including the division of Kroger, Ralphs, Vons Division of Safeway, Albertson, Costco and Trader Joe jack-in-the-Box.

"It's the American dream," said former alderman of the city of Norco Steve Nathan, a family friend Eisen, the Associated Press-Enterprise, at the time of sale. "It started with a small group of chickens, worked hard and became a billionaire."

Eisen was born May 15, 1917, in Izbica Kujawski, a small town in Poland. He left home at 13 and got a job in a sausage factory in Warsaw.

Selected in the Polish cavalry before the Second World War, was captured during the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and finally ended in the concentration camp Auschwitz, where he was put to work in coal mines.

"I was just a number" tattooed Eisen, who still wore his number - 144492 - left arm, told the Associated Press-Enterprise in 1993.

After the Red Army approached Auschwitz began, and the prisoners were forced into a "death march" toward the other camp in January 1945, Eisen, Abe and his brother and another man escaped .

After the war, Eisen returned to his village where he had gone to school with Hilda.

With the exception of his brother Moses and his brother Abe, the entire family was murdered Eisen of the Chelmno extermination camp.

Hilda, who had joined the Jewish resistance after persuading a Nazi guard to open the door of his ghetto of Lublin in 1942, has lost her parents and her six brothers and sisters in Nazi death camps.

The Eisen, who were married in Monaco of Bavaria in 1945, spoke about their experiences of the Holocaust with their four children in recent years, but not go into details.

"I do not feel comfortable uploading their children with horror stories," said Miller.

But, he adds, "they were able to take your pain and become very beneficial for him and very Zionist and very giving back. He felt lucky to be in the giving of charity, more than the receiving end. "

Eisen was a member of several organizations of Holocaust survivors and served as president of the California Lodz, a philanthropic group that survived the Holocaust.

The Eisen contributed financially to the construction of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 and attended the inauguration with family members.

Eisen spoke of his years at Auschwitz, in an interview recorded for the permanent collection of oral history.

"We are witnesses .... We went through hell," he said in an interview in 1993.

In addition to his daughter Frances, Eisen is survived by his wife of 67 years, his other daughters, Ruth Eisen and Maria Cramer, his son, Howard, eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

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Columnist Alexander Cockburn dies at 71

Alexander Cockburn, radical journalist who had written columns and long-standing and bitter conservative Wall Street Journal and the left output of the nation, died Friday in Germany. He was 71 years.

The writer was influential in fighting cancer, according to its editor, Katrina Vanden Heuvel.

Unlike other prominent writer, Christopher Hitchens, with whom he had often been compared, Cockburn does not share the history of the disease. "It was a rare move in a calm race characterized by a thirst for public debate.

For 28 years, Cockburn has written a column once the Devil in the nation. Her last column appears publication July 30.

"Alexander was delighted to be a disturbing element, and his provocative, controversial style, elegant, usually involved, and their reporting and analysis in the sub-windows open unreported news," Vanden Heuvel, director and editor of the Nation, said in an email to The Times.

"I often felt I was not doing my job well, if we have a dozen cancellations of subscriptions as a result of some columns Cockburn."

Cockburn was born June 6, 1941, in Scotland, the son of writer Claud Cockburn.

It grew up in Ireland and graduated from Oxford University in 1963 with a degree in English literature and language.

He began his journalism career in England before moving to the United States in 1973.

Moved to New York where he began writing a column for the Village Voice review of revolutionary media.

"His legacy was his commitment to truth, his disgust with the pretense of objectivity, his belief that every piece of writing has had an ideological inclination, and had to admit that," Amy Wilentz , a contributing editor nation, the Times said in an email.

Cockburn, who had been critical ofIsrael'spolicies was fired from the Village Voice in 1984, after it emerged that he had accepted $ 10,000 from a group described as pro-Arab. Cockburn said the money was for a book deal.

Like Hitchens, Cockburn began his career as a public intellectual as a radical leftist, and then to drift. Both found that the search for independent thought has given rise to opinions that are contrary to those held by their allies.

Where Cockburn, one of the main problems was left burning his denial of global warming, which brought him a measure of public attention in 2007.

In recent years, Cockburn had withdrawn from its privileged position at the public forum. "He had the intellectual firepower to do whatever I wanted," said writer Marc Cooper, a former colleague who had a fight with Cockburn.

"He became lost in a very influential writer in favor of becoming a controversial release of fang."

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Sylvia Woods dies at 86

Sylvia Woods, 86 years, founder of the famous Harlem soul food restaurant that bears his name and is a must for residents, tourists, celebrities and politicians, died Thursday at his home in Mount Vernon, New York; his family has said. He had Alzheimer's disease.

Woods and her husband, Herbert, natives of South Carolina who met as children, Sylvia restaurant started in 1962.

Royal Harlem, the restaurant has politicians during the election campaign and for tourists and locals eager to corn bread, cabbage, ribs, fried chicken and other staples of southern cuisine.

The Reverend Al Sharpton, said Sylvia was "more of a restaurant was a meeting of black America."

He said we had dinner there with many celebrities, including President Obama and Caroline Kennedy.

Since its creation 50 years ago as a restaurant on Lenox Avenue near 127 Street, Sylvia has become a company that includes cookbooks, and a line of food products nationwide.

Woods, resigned to run the restaurant when he was 80 years, leaving in the hands of his sons and forests grandchildren.Herbert died in 2001.

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Former chairman of MediaNews Group Richard B. Scudder Dies at 99

Richard B. Scudder, 99, founder and president of MediaNews Group Inc., the second largest newspaper, which has also helped to invent a process that allows the recycling of paper for newspapers, died Wednesday at home in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey

Scudder was born May 13, 1913, in a newspaper family in Newark, NJ His grandfather founded the Newark Evening News and his father worked.

After receiving a degree in Economics from Princeton University, Scudder worked as a newspaper reporter for the Boston Herald, he joined the Evening News as a reporter in 1938.

He took over his father as director of the Evening News in 1952 and served for 20 years.

In 1983, Scudder and one of its founding in Denver, MediaNews, William Dean Singleton, began to buy newspapers in New Jersey, Ohio and California. Their collaboration became MediaNews Group, a private company with holdings that include newspaper News of Los Angeles, the San Jose Mercury News, the Denver Post and Detroit News newspaper.

Scudder was president of MediaNews 1985-2009. The company owns 57 newspapers in 11 states with combined daily circulation of 2.3 million, making the nation's second largest company MediaNews newspaper after Gannett Co.

Scudder served in the Army during World War II, earning a Bronze Star. He had learned German as a child and put the knowledge to use scripts for the German radio station to fool the Nazis as part of "Operation Annie".

In early 1950, Scudder had a hand in inventing a process for removing ink from newsprint in newspapers can be recycled into newsprint quality.

After being approached by a vendor release that came with the idea, Scudder tried the process in your office and home settings, before going to university research laboratory. He was admitted to the Paper Industry Hall of Fame in 1995.

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Martin L. Swig Dies at 78

When viewed today, rare cars, like Lancia Lambda 1925, 1941 or 1953 Tatra T87 1900 Coupe Pininfarina Alfa Romeo are generally fixed, delivered to the sample auto dealerships or inelegant trailers.

With the founding of the California Mille, an event known worldwide and manages classic sports cars of more than 1,000 kilometers of mountain roads of Northern California, Swiga Martin said that people see the cars that do what they should do: eat the hot asphalt.

Swiga Sr., who died Tuesday at age 78, he organized the first California Mille in 1991. The tour of the cars built in 1957 or before, lasting four days from the last Sunday in April, and for many twenty kilometers along the northern coast of California extraordinary view.

Around 75 vehicles around the world join the tour each year, each owner pays nearly $ 6,000 to enter.

Mr. Swiga, who also owned one of the first performances of several major automobile franchises in the United States, died in Greenbray, California, and lived in Sausalito. His son David said he had a stroke on Sunday.

The California Mille is based in the Italian Mille Miglia, an endurance race from Brescia to Rome and back that was from 1927 until 1957. Swiga and Mr. John Lamm of Road and Track magazine has participated in a revival of 1955, the 1982 Alfa Romeo Mille Swiga Mr. Zagat 1900. Then it was about 50 thousand events in Japan and Australia, Italy and California.

The Tour of California requires an exceptionally dedicated unit, said Swiga Sports Car Digest in 2011. "They have a car driving off and not just once a year," he said. "One has to be one with your car."

Many car collectors focus on one brand or model, but the collection of Mr. Swiga about 30 cars is eclectic. In addition to the rarity of the above, has had five different models of Alfa Romeo Giulietta, a pair of 510S and a Datsun Toyota Corona 1968 Hardtop two doors. His most recent was a 2013 Subaru BRZ.

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