George D. Morgan
Stanley Pons,
Martin Fleischmann, and the story of
Cold Fusion.
In The Works...
In 1988 a clerk at the United States Department of Energy received a funding request from two scientists working out of the University of Utah--Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann.
The application requested money to finance their research into chemically induced room temperature fusion. Normal custom required such grant requests to undergo peer review, and the application was sent to another scientist who was quietly working on similar experiments--Steven E. Jones.
Ironically, Jones worked at another Utah university--Brigham Young, a mere forty-five minute drive south from Pons and Fleischmann. This fluke of proximity would bring to pass ruinous, unforeseen consequences for all three men. In time, they
would be both praised and reviled, accepted and
forsaken, famous and infamous.
Eventually the hallowed halls of Science would excommunicate all three for commiting the unpardonable sin: unbridled hubris.
Their "invention" would come to be called "cold fusion". It held
the promise of cheap, inexhaustable energy.
The whole world paid attention.
Great
Scott !!
One man show:
An Evening With
Frank Capra
From his early days as a peasant Italian immigrant to his graduation from Caltech as a chemical engineer -- from his homeless wanderings during the Great Depression to his unlikely ascendance as America's premiere film director -- from his enlistment and service in the U.S. Army to his eventual fall from Hollywood grace, the life of Frank Capra is a story that is often inspiring, sometimes tragic, but always engaging.
This one-actor stage play is currently in development through a collaboration of Loren Marsters and George D. Morgan