Louis Kervran

Corentin Louis Kervran (3 March 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 World War II he was part of the French Resistance.

Kervran proposed that nuclear transmutation occurs in living organisms, which he called "biological transmutation". Proponents of biological transmutations fall outside mainstream physics and are not part of the scientific discourse.

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 precipitation of egg shells. As a result, he claimed that organisms can transmute potassium into calcium by nuclear fusion:

39
19K
+ 1
1H
→ 40
20Ca

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. Kervran said that enzymes can facilitate biological transmutations using the weak nuclear force, by what he called "neutral currents." His response to criticism was to claim that physical laws do not apply to biological reactions, which contradicts the mainstream view that physical laws apply for all scales and conditions. In 1978, George Ohsawa, the founder of the macrobiotic diet, said that he had himself managed to transmute carbon into iron.

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