Stanley Pons (born in 1943, Valdese, North Carolina) is a French electrochemist 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 degree in 1978.
On March 23, 1989, while Pons was the chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Utah, he and Fleischmann announced the ex...
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Stanley Pons (born in 1943, Valdese, North Carolina) is a French electrochemist 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 degree in 1978.
On March 23, 1989, while Pons was the chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Utah, he and Fleischmann announced the experimental production of "N-Fusion" which was quickly labeled by the press as cold fusion — a result previously thought to be unattainable. After a short period of public acclaim, hundreds of scientists attempted to reproduce the effects but generally failed. Those that failed to reproduce the claim attacked the pair for fraudulent, sloppy and unethical work, incomplete unreproducible and inaccurate results, erroneous interpretations. Fleischmann and Pons remain convinced the effect is real, but many skeptics and scientists are not.
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