Bobby Stanley Pons (born August 23, 1943) is an American electrochemist known for his work with Martin Fleischmann on cold fusion in the 1980s and 1990s.
He attended Valdese High School, then Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he studied chemistry.
The New York Times wrote that it pioneered a way to measure the spectra of chemical reactions on the surface of an electrode.
[4] On March 23, 1989, while Pons was the chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Utah,[4] he and Martin Fleischmann announced the experimental production of "N-Fusion", which was quickly labeled by the press cold fusion.
[5] After a short period of public acclaim, hundreds of scientists attempted to reproduce the effects but generally failed.