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Martin Fleischmann FRS (29 March 1927 – 3 August 2012) was a British chemist who worked in electrochemistry. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The premature announcement of his cold fusion research with Stanley Pons , [ 5 ] regarding excess heat in heavy water, caused a media sensation and elicited skepticism and criticism from many in the scientific community.
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He authored the book Fire from Ice, which details the 1989 report of table-top cold fusion from Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann at the University of Utah. [15] The book claims the team did produce "greater-than-unity" output energy in an experiment that was successfully replicated on several occasions. [16]
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The final experiments made by Tandberg with heavy water were similar to the original experiment by Fleischmann and Pons. [25] Fleischmann and Pons were not aware of Tandberg's work. [26] [text 1] [text 2] The term "cold fusion" was used as early as 1956 in an article in The New York Times about Luis Alvarez's work on muon-catalyzed fusion. [27]
On March 23, 1989, while Pons was the chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Utah, [4] he and Martin Fleischmann announced the experimental production of "N-Fusion", which was quickly labeled by the press cold fusion. [5]
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