Timeline of cold fusion

Timeline of significant events in the history of cold fusion

Before 1989
* 1926 - F. Paneth and K. Peters report the transformation of hydrogen into helium within palladium (later retracted)
* 1927 - J. Tandberg said that he had fused hydrogen into helium in an electrolytic cell with palladium electrodes
* 1984 - Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons of the University of Utah begin experimenting with electrolytic cells
* March 1986 - Brigham Young University develop plans for research using electrolytic cells
* July 1987 - Steven E. Jones of Brigham Young University publishes an article entitled "Cold Nuclear Fusion" in Scientific American
* 1988 - Fleischmann and Pons apply to the US Department of Energy for funding for research
* September 28 1988 - Jones reviews the application of Fleischmann and Pons, and recommends approval

1989
* February 23 - Fleischmann and Pons visit Brigham Young University laboratory
* March 6 - the University of Utah and Brigham Young University meet and apparently agree to submit papers simultaneously on March 24
* March 11 - Fleischmann and Pons submit a Preliminary Note paper to the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
* 23 March - Fleischmann and Pons announces the production of excess heat at a press conference at the University of Utah
* March 23 - Jones submit his paper to Nature
* April 10 - Texas A&M University and Georgia Institute of Technology report excess heat and neutron production respectively (later retracted)
* April 12 - the American Chemical Society hold a session on cold fusion where Pons receives a standing ovation
* April 18 - Francesco Scaramuzzi detects neutron bursts from a dry cell in his ENEA lab in Frascati, Italy
* May 1 - American Physical Society hold a session and 3 press conferences to review results at Baltimore, MD
* May 23 - May 25 Workshop on Cold Fusion Phenomena, Santa Fé, New Mexico, organized by Los Alamos National Laboratory
* July 6 - Nature publishes a paper critical of cold fusion
* October 18 - Julian Schwinger resigns as Member and Fellow of the American Physical Society, in protest of its peer-review practice on cold fusion
* November 23 - Nature publishes a second paper critical of cold fusion
* November 26 - The Energy Research Advisory Board of the US Department of Energy issues its final report

After 1989
* March 1990 - first international conference on cold fusion in Salt Lake City, UT
* June 7 1991 - Eugene Mallove resigns from the MIT news office, in protest from alleged scientific misconduct
* June 29 to July 4, 1991 - 2nd international conference on cold fusion in Como, Italy
* October 21 to 25, 1992 - 3rd international conference on cold fusion in Nagoya, Japan
* December 6 to 9, 1993 - 4th international conference on cold fusion at Lahina, Maui, USA
* April 9 to April 13 1995 - 5th international conference on cold fusion in Monte Carlo, Monaco
* October 13 to October 18 1996 - 6th international conference on cold fusion at Lake Toya, Hokkaido, Japan
* April 19 to April 24 1998 - 7th international conference on cold fusion in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
* May 21 to May 26 2000 - 8th international conference on cold fusion in Lerici (La Spezia), Italy
* February 2002 - a laboratory within the United States Navy released a report that came to the conclusion that the cold fusion phenomenon was in fact real and deserved an official funding source for research.
* May 19 to May 24 2002 - 9th international conference on cold fusion at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
* August 24 to August 29 2003 - 10th international conference on cold fusion in Cambridge, MA
* October 1 to November 5 2004 - 11th international conference on condensed matter nuclear science in Marseille, France
* December 2004 - The US Department of Energy issues its second review of cold fusion
* November 27 to December 2 2005 - 12th international conference on condensed matter nuclear science in Yokohama, Japan

Main Menu

See Also

Main Menu