Fleischmann

Martin Fleischmann, FRS, (1927-) is an electrochemist at the University of Southampton. He is best known for his controversial work with his former graduate student Stanley Pons on cold fusion, in the 1980s and '90s. more...

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On March 23, 1989, while Pons was a researcher at the University of Utah, he and Fleischmann announced the experimental production of cold fusion -- a result previously thought to be unattainable. After a short period of public acclaim, the pair were attacked widely for sloppy, unreproducable research and inaccurate results, as Fleischmann predicted they would be. However, by September 1990, 92 groups of researchers from 10 different countries reported they had replicated cold fusion, and hundreds more researchers later observed the effect and published in mainstream, peer-reviewed journals. Fleischmann, Pons and the researchers who replicated the effect remain convinced the effect is real, but skeptics who oppose them are convinced it is not.

In 1992, Fleischmann moved to France with Pons, to work at the IMRA laboratory (part of Technova Corporation, a subsidiary of Toyota). The pair parted ways in 1995, and Fleischmann returned to Southampton, where he remained as of 1999. He has recently co-authored papers with researchers from the U.S. Navy and Italian national laboratories (INFN and ENEA). In 2006 Fleischmann joined the San Francisco company D2Fusion.

See also: cold fusion

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