John R. Huizenga

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John R. Huizenga (April 21, 1921 – January 25, 2014) was an American physicist who helped build the world’s first atomic bomb and who also received more recent fame for debunking Utah scientists' claim of achieving cold fusion.[1] [2] [3]

During World War II, Huizenga supervised teams at the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tenn. involved in enriching uranium used in the atomic weapon dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945. After the war, as a result of the world’s first hydrogen bomb explosion on a Pacific atoll in 1952, Huizenga was part of the team that added two new synthetic chemical elements einsteinium and fermium to the Periodic table.[2][1]

In 1967, he became a professor of chemistry and physics at the University of Rochester where he worked for the remainder of his career.

In 1989, Huizenga co-chaired a panel which debunked claims by two University of Utah chemists that they had achieved nuclear fusion at room temperature. He later published a book “Cold Fusion: The Scientific Fiasco of the Century.”[2][1]

Published works

  • Huizenga, J.R. (2009). Five Decades of Research in Nuclear Science. Meliora Press, Rochester, New York. 
  • Huizenga, J.R. (1993). Cold Fusion: The Scientific Fiasco of the Century. Oxford University Press. 
  • Huizenga, J.R.; Schröder, W.U. (1984). D.Allan Bromley, ed. Damped Nuclear Reactions, Treatise on Heavy-Ion Science. Plenum Press. p. 113-726. 
  • Huizenga, J.R.; Vandenbosch, R. (1973). Nuclear Fission. Academic Press, New York. 

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 WILLIAM J. BROAD (Jan. 29, 2014). "John R. Huizenga, Physicist at Fore of Nuclear Era, Dies at 92". New York Times. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Professor Emeritus John R. Huizenga, a Key Figure in the 1989 National Review of Cold Fusion Claims, Dies at Age 92". University of Rochester. January 29, 2014. Retrieved January 30, 2014. 
  3. ↑ "Department of Chemistry". Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester. Retrieved November 30, 2014. 
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