Stanley Pons
| Stanley Pons | |
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| File:Stanley Pons cold fusion gear.jpg | |
| Born | August 23, 1943 Valdese, North Carolina, U.S.[1] |
| Citizenship | France (originally US)[2] |
| Fields | Electrochemistry |
| Institutions | University of Utah |
| Doctoral advisor | Alan Bewick |
| Known for | Work on cold fusion |
Bobby Stanley Pons (born August 23, 1943) is an American-French electrochemist known for his work with Martin Fleischmann on cold fusion in the 1980s and 1990s.[3]
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Early life
Pons was born in Valdese, North Carolina. He attended Valdese High School, then Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., where he studied chemistry. He began his PhD studies in chemistry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, but left before completing his PhD for financial reasons.[citation needed] His thesis resulted in a paper, co-authored in 1967 with Harry B. Mark, his adviser. The New York Times wrote that it pioneered a way to measure the spectra of chemical reactions on the surface of an electrode.[4]
He decided to finish his PhD in England at the University of Southampton, where in 1975 he met Martin Fleischmann. Pons was a student in Professor Alan Bewick's group; he earned his PhD in 1978.[4]
Career
On March 23, 1989, while Pons was the chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Utah,[4] he and Fleischmann announced the experimental production of "N-Fusion", which was quickly labeled by the press as cold fusion.[5] After a short period of public acclaim, hundreds of scientists attempted to reproduce the effects but generally failed.[6] After the claims were found to be unreproducible, the scientific community determined the claims were incomplete, and inaccurate.[1][6][7][7][8][9][10]
Pons moved to France in 1992, along with Fleischmann, to work at a Toyota-sponsored laboratory. The laboratory closed in 1998 after a ₤12 million research investment without conclusive results.[2] He gave up his US citizenship[11] and became a French citizen.[12]
References
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