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UNH's Connell Recognized for his U.S. Patent

UNH's Connell Recognized for his U.S. Patent

In the 1980s while visiting the USS Pampanito in San Francisco as a graduate student, Jim Connell wondered if the concept of submarines’ opposed-piston diesel engines could apply to fusion. Recently, the fruits of that inspiration that eventually led to Connell’s U.S. patent, “System of Converging... Read More

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