Timeline of cold fusion
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Timeline of significant events in the history of cold fusion
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[edit] 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[1]
[edit] 1989
- February 23 - Fleischmann and Pons visit Brigham Young University laboratory [2]
- 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)[citation needed]
- 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[3]
- 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[4]
- 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
[edit] After 1989
- March 1990 - first international conference on cold fusion in Salt Lake City, UT[5]
- June 7, 1991 - Eugene Mallove resigns from the MIT news office, in protest from alleged scientific misconduct[6]
- June 29 to July 4, 1991 - 2nd international conference on cold fusion in Como, Italy[7]
- October 21 to 25, 1992 - 3rd international conference on cold fusion in Nagoya, Japan[8]
- December 6 to 9, 1993 - 4th international conference on cold fusion at Lahina, Maui, USA[9]
- April 9 to April 13, 1995 - 5th international conference on cold fusion in Monte Carlo, Monaco[10]
- October 13 to October 18, 1996 - 6th international conference on cold fusion at Lake Toya, Hokkaido, Japan[11]
- April 19 to April 24, 1998 - 7th international conference on cold fusion in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada[12]
- May 21 to May 26, 2000 - 8th international conference on cold fusion in Lerici (La Spezia), Italy[13]
- 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.[14]
- May 19 to May 24 2002 - 9th international conference on cold fusion at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China[15]
- August 24 to August 29, 2003 - 10th international conference on cold fusion in Cambridge, MA[16]
- October 1 to November 5, 2004 - 11th international conference on condensed matter nuclear science in Marseille, France[17]
- 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[18]
