Martin Fleischmann
Martin Fleischmann
Martin Fleischmann FRSwas a British chemist noted for his work in electrochemistry. Premature announcement of his cold fusion research with Stanley Pons, regarding excess heat in heavy water, caused a media sensation although they continued their interest and research in cold fusion...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 March 1927
scientist conventional
You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.
song tests theme
One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.
tree facts scientist
Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.
utah secret patents
Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.
break-through ideas two
Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.
assume english-scientist fact high including reveals since valid
If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature.
thinking becoming becoming-more
I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.
thinking british knows
I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.
thinking daddy fusion
Now, of course, cold fusion is the daddy of them all in a way, in terms of value, so I think that viewed in a social way, from the point of social considerations and economics, it will tell you that this thing will stay around.
thinking mind age
It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.