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	<b>Stanley Pons</b> (born in 1943, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdese,_North_Carolina Valdese, North Carolina]) is an electrochemist best known for his work with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Fleischmann Martin Fleischmann] on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion cold fusion] in the 1980s and ?90s. The two met while Pons was a graduate student in Professor Alan Bewick?s group at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Southampton University of Southampton] where he earned his PhD in 1978.		<b>Stanley Pons</b> (born in 1943, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdese,_North_Carolina Valdese, North Carolina]) is an electrochemist best known for his work with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Fleischmann Martin Fleischmann] on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion cold fusion] in the 1980s and ?90s. The two met while Pons was a graduate student in Professor Alan Bewick's group at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Southampton University of Southampton] where he earned his PhD in 1978.

	On [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_23 March 23], 1989, while Pons was the chairman of the chemistry department at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Utah University of Utah], he and Fleischmann announced the experimental production of "N-Fusion" <sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Pons#cite_note-0 [1]]</sup> which was quickly labeled by the press as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion cold fusion] -- a result previously thought to be unattainable. After a short period of public acclaim, the pair were attacked widely for sloppy, irreproducible research and inaccurate results. Although some groups claimed to have reproduced their work, reviews by the US Department of Energy consider the claims to be unconvincing and declined to further fund the research.		On [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_23 March 23], 1989, while Pons was the chairman of the chemistry department at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Utah University of Utah], he and Fleischmann announced the experimental production of "N-Fusion" <sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Pons#cite_note-0 [1]]</sup> which was quickly labeled by the press as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion cold fusion] -- a result previously thought to be unattainable. After a short period of public acclaim, the pair were attacked widely for sloppy, irreproducible research and inaccurate results. Although some groups claimed to have reproduced their work, reviews by the US Department of Energy consider the claims to be unconvincing and declined to further fund the research.

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Stanley Pons (born in 1943, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdese,_North_Carolina Valdese, North Carolina]) is an electrochemist best known for his work with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Fleischmann Martin Fleischmann] on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion cold fusion] in the 1980s and ?90s. The two met while Pons was a graduate student in Professor Alan Bewick?s group at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Southampton University of Southampton] where he earned his PhD in 1978.

On [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_23 March 23], 1989, while Pons was the chairman of the chemistry department at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Utah University of Utah], he and Fleischmann announced the experimental production of "N-Fusion" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Pons#cite_note-0 [1]] which was quickly labeled by the press as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion cold fusion] -- a result previously thought to be unattainable. After a short period of public acclaim, the pair were attacked widely for sloppy, irreproducible research and inaccurate results. Although some groups claimed to have reproduced their work, reviews by the US Department of Energy consider the claims to be unconvincing and declined to further fund the research.

Pons moved to France in 1992, along with Fleischmann, to work at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IMRA&action=edit&redlink=1 IMRA] laboratory (part of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Technova_Corporation&action=edit&redlink=1 Technova Corporation], a subsidiary of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota Toyota]); the laboratory was closed in 1998 after burning through a $12 million research investment.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Pons#cite_note-1 [2]]. The pair parted ways in 1995. As of 1999, Pons was living in southern France. According to a report of the history of the chemistry department at the University of Utah, as of 2000 he is no longer doing research in France.

'''Websites:'''

* [http://www.nndb.com/people/449/000044317/ http://www.nndb.com/people/449/000044317/]

'''Articles:'''

* [http://www.padrak.com/ine/NEN_4_12_2.html Calibration For Cold Fusion, NEN Vol. 4, No. 12, Apr. 1997.]
* [http://www.padrak.com/ine/CFPOSFBK.html "Calibration of the Pd-D2O System". Sept. 1996 NEN.]
* [http://www.padrak.com/ine/CFLIBEL.html Pons and Fleischmann Lose an Italian Court Fraud Case! MAY 1996 NEN.]

==Abstracts==

* 1990 - "[[Our Calorimetric Measurements of the Pd/S Systems]]"

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