Institute for Basic Research
| Ruggero Santilli | |
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| Born |
September 8, 1935 Capracotta, Molise, Italy |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Naples, University of Turin |
| Known for | Hadronic Physics, Hadronic Chemistry, Magnecules, Controlled Intermediate Nuclear Fusion |
| Spouse(s) | Carla |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Institute for Basic Research |
Ruggero Maria Santilli (born September 8, 1935) is an Italo-American nuclear physicist. Mainstream scientists dismiss his theories as fringe science, which Santilli, in his turn, describes as a mainstream conspiracy against novel science.
Ruggero Maria Santilli was born in Capracotta and attended high school in Agnone, Province of Isernia, in the Italian region of Molise.
Santilli studied physics at the University of Naples and went on to attend the Graduate School in Physics of the University of Turin, graduating in 1966.
In September 1981 Santilli established the Institute for Basic Research and became its President. Santilli has been the Founder and Chief Scientist ( 2007-2013) of MagneGas Corporation. Currently, Santilli is President of the Institute for Basic Research, Founder and Chief Scientist of Thunder Fusion Corporation. On the 22nd of January 2009 he was awarded with the Mediterranean Award for Science and Research from the Fondazione Mediterraneo.
Santilli is the Founder and the Honorary Editor in Chief of the Hadronic Journal and Algebras, Groups and Geometries published by Hadronic Press.
Santilli claims to have developed novel fuels, named "MagneGas" and "MagneHydrogen," produced by plasma arc gasification of liquid waste. Santilli claims that these fuels are composed of magnecules. These hypothetical particles are a type of theoretical chemical species proposed by Santilli, distinguished from better-known species by containing a novel type of bond called a "magnecular bond", which he claims consists of atoms held together by magnetic fields which arise from "toroidal polarization" of their electron orbitals. Neither these claims nor the existence of magnecules have been accepted by the scientific community.
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