Who discovered “cold fusion”?
“Cold fusion” was discovered in the mid-1980s by electrochemists Martin Fleischmann, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and Stanley Pons, chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Utah. They carried out their research secretly, worried that its announcement would cause chaos in the scientific community. They, and the University of Utah held a press conference on March 23, 1989, at which the two scientists and university administrators announced the discovery to the world.
