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Stanley Pons is an
electrochemist best known for his
work with
Martin Fleischmann on
cold fusion in the 1980s and
'90s. Pons had previously been a
graduate student of Fleischmann's
at the
University of Southampton
where he earned his PhD in 1978.
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, even after
many groups claimed to have
reproduced their work.
[1] Pons moved to France in
1992, along with Fleischmann, to
work at the
IMRA laboratory (part of
Technova Corporation, a
subsidiary of
Toyota). The pair parted ways
in 1995. As of 1999, Pons was
living in southern France.
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