Martin Fleischmann

Martin Fleischmann ( born March 29, 1927 in Carlsbad, north Bohemia, † August 3, 2012 in Tisbury ) was a British chemist and internationally recognized expert in electrochemistry, which was known regarding the cold fusion by the report of promising results, but by third parties could not be traced.

Biography

Martin Fleischmann grew up in the 1930s in Bohemia, which he left because of his Jewish descent in 1939 at the age of twelve years with his family from a threat by the German Nazis. Fleischmann studied at Imperial College London, where he received his doctorate in 1950. He then taught at Newcastle University (then King's College ) and in 1967 professor of electrochemistry at the University of Southampton. In 1982, he went into retirement.

Fleischmann played a role in the 1974 discovery of surface-enhanced Raman scattering ( Raman Scattering Surface Enhanced English SERS) and developed around 1980, the ultra- microelectrode ( UME).

Fleischmann, who suffered from Parkinson 's disease, lived with his wife in Wiltshire, England.

1970 to 1972 he was president of the International Society of electrochemists. 1986 Fleischmann was admitted as a Fellow to the Royal Society in 1979 and was awarded the medal for electrochemistry and thermodynamics. In 1985 he received the Palladium Medal of the U.S. Electrochemical Society.

Cold Fusion

1989 Fleischmann researched at the University of Utah. On 23 March 1989 Fleischmann told at a press conference, along with his colleagues and pupils Stanley Pons, from experiments in which cold fusion was observed, which they gained worldwide attention since two chemists something with a relatively simple electrolysis experiment seemed to have succeeded, what hundreds of physicists and engineers searched in vain with billions effort for decades. The announcement at a press conference prior to publication in a professional journal was under pressure from the university, which wanted to secure the patents and brought Fleischmann and Pons later much criticism from colleagues in. But the experiment of Fleischmann and Pons, which was immediately repeated hundreds of times all over the world came, fierce criticism after for example at Caltech with significantly higher interdisciplinary, experimental effort could not reproduce the results (a group of 22 scientists under Nathan Lewis). As Lewis and colleagues presented their negative results at the meeting of the Electrochemical Society in Los Angeles in May 1989, the tide in the U.S. turned against the representatives of cold fusion. Fleischmann and Pons could their work at the University of Utah does not continue and led them instead from 1992 for several years, funded by Toyota, in a lab ( IMRA lab) in France continued. Fleischmann retired again in 1995 to England, but also published later for cold fusion with scientists from Italy and the U.S. Navy.

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