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Corentin Louis Kervran (1901 - 2 February 1983) was a French scientist. Kervran was born in Quimper, Finistère (Brittany), and received a degree as an engineer in 1925. In WWII he was part of the French Resistance.〔http://www.pansernature.org/Transmutations.htm〕 Kervran proposed that nuclear transmutation occurs in living organisms, which he called "biological transmutation". Such transmutations are not possible according to the known laws of physics, chemistry and biology. Proponents of biological transmutations fall outside the mainstream and are not part of the scientific discourse.〔 ==Biological transmutation== In the 1960s, Louis Kervran claimed to have conducted experiments and studies demonstrating violations of the law of conservation of mass by biological systems, specifically during the formation of egg shells. As a result, he claimed that organisms can transmute potassium into calcium by nuclear fusion: + → Since biological systems do not contain mechanisms to produce the speed, temperature and pressure necessary for such reactions, even for extremely short periods of time, this contradicts basic physical laws. Kervran said that his work was supported by prior studies and by reports of industrial accidents involving carbon monoxide.〔Louis C. Kervran ''Preuves en Biologie de Transmutations à Faible Énergie'', Paris 1975, Maloine, ISBN 2-224-00178-9.〕 Kervran said that enzymes can facilitate biological transmutations using the weak nuclear force, by what he called "neutral currents."〔Louis Kervran, "Biological evidence of low energy transmutations", Maloine, 1975 (See "Final Note" by Costa de Beauregard)〕 His response to criticism was to claim that physical laws do not apply to biological reactions, which contradicts the mainstream understanding that physical laws apply for all scales and conditions.〔 Kervran's theories seem to be based on the philosophy of yin and yang.〔 In 1978, philosopher George Ohsawa, the founder of the macrobiotic diet, said that he had himself managed to transmute carbon into iron, with oxygen being the yin and carbon being the yang.〔 The alleged transmutations resemble cold fusion.〔 There is currently no accepted theoretical model which would allow cold fusion to occur. In 1993, Kervran was awarded a parodic Ig Nobel prize due to his "improbable research" in biological transmutation. The award description called him an "ardent admirer of alchemy." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Corentin Louis Kervran」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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