Stanley Pons was a chemist at University of Utah who, while working with Martin Fleischmann of the University of Southampton, announced the discovery of cold fusion on March 23, 1989. Pons had been a graduate student of Fleischmann's at the University of Southampton where he earned his PhD in 1978. A chemist is a scientist who specializes in chemistry. ... The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U) was established by Mormon leader Brigham Young. ... Martin Fleischmann (1927-) is a chemist at the University of Southampton who, while working with Stanley Pons of University of Utah, announced the discovery of cold fusion on March 23, 1989. ... University of Southampton Dolphin logo The University of Southampton is a British university, with a reputation for quality research. ... Charles Bennett examines three cold fusion test cells at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Cold fusion is a name for any nuclear fusion reaction that occurs well below the temperature required for thermonuclear reactions (which occur at millions of degrees Celsius). ... March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in Leap years). ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... University of Southampton Dolphin logo The University of Southampton is a British university, with a reputation for quality research. ...
See: cold fusion Charles Bennett examines three cold fusion test cells at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Cold fusion is a name for any nuclear fusion reaction that occurs well below the temperature required for thermonuclear reactions (which occur at millions of degrees Celsius). ...
In 1989chemists B. StanleyPons and Martin Fleischmann announced to great fanfare that they had done just that, building a bench-top fusion percolator made up of two electrodes and a slug of heavy water.
But Pons and Fleischmann were vague about how their "cold fusion" reactor worked, and when other scientists tried to duplicate the pair's results, they got mostly cold water for their trouble.
Pons and Fleischmann repaired to Europe to continue their work-- separately and quietly.
StanleyPons (born in 1943, Valdese, NC) is an electrochemist best known for his work with Martin Fleischmann on cold fusion in the 1980s and '90s.
The two met while Pons was a graduate student in Professor Alan Bewick's group at the University of Southampton where he earned his PhD in 1978.
After a short period of public acclaim, the pair were attacked widely for sloppy, irreproducible research and inaccurate results, even after many groups claimed to have reproduced their work, [1] and hundreds of positive replications were published in mainstream, peer-reviewed journals.
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