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
Martin Fleischmann quotes about
english-scientist phase stan work
Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.
assessment came device english-scientist successful three trillion whether worth
I don't know whether you have done your calculations but, about two or three years back, I did a first assessment of what the first successful device would be worth and it came out at about 300 trillion dollars.
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.
scientist conventional
You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.
worthwhile experiments expensive
It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.
retiring
I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.