Stanley Pons
Stanley Pons (born February 8, 1943 in Valdese , North Carolina ) is an American electrochemist who became known through his work with Martin Fleischmann on cold fusion in the 1980s and 1990s.
Pons and Fleischmann met when Pons was a student in Professor Alan Bewick's group at the University of Southampton , where he received his Ph.D. received. On March 23, 1989, while Pons was a researcher at the University of Utah , he and Fleischmann published the experimental discovery of cold fusion - a result previously believed to be unattainable. After a brief period of public acclaim, both were accused of sloppy research and irreproducible, inaccurate results. Pons moved to France together with Martin Fleischmann in 1992 to work at the IMRA laboratory (part of Technova Corporation , a subsidiary of Toyota ). In 1995 they parted ways when first Fleischmann and a year later Pons left the company.
Pons has lived in the south of France since 1999. He has not been a researcher since 2000, according to a report from the University of Utah's chemistry department.
Web links
- Frank Grotelüschen: Cold Fusion - Manuscript: A lesson on lazy research (archive). In: Deutschlandfunk . March 30, 2014, accessed November 13, 2017 .
- Stanley Pons in the nndb (English)
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| SURNAME | Pons, Stanley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Valdese , North Carolina |