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Frank Gordon
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  • Dr. Frank Gordon, Code 71 Department Head and SES member, retires after over 38 years of federal service (2010) [Updated 1 decade ago]

    SSC Pacific News Bulletin, 9 Aug 2010. Frank Gordon, head of the Research and Applied Sciences Department (Code 71), retired July 31. A member of the Senior Executive Service for more than 22 years, Dr. Gordon has been employed at the Center and related organizations for his entire federal career.

    Although an earlier version of the New Professional Program did not accept new employees with doctorates, Dr. Gordon, was offered a position at the Center's former Pasadena Laboratory shortly after receiving his Doctor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kansas in 1971, by D. A. "Bud" Kunz, for many years the head of the Fleet Engineering Department. Dr. Gordon copied and carried Kunz's management style throughout his career. He spent much of his initial career in weapons development, with a first assignment related to underwater missile launch.


  • How Hot Is Cold Fusion? (2010) [Updated 1 decade ago]

    March 23 2010 marked the 21st anniversary of the announcement by Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons that began the modern era of ?cold fusion? with the claim that the heat is produced from the deuterium palladium system exceeded that which could be attributed to chemical reactions and therefore must be nuclear. While most scientist were unsuccessful in replicating the Fleischmann-Pons results, others were successful and over the past 21 years, the effect has been reproduced in laboratories worldwide with results reported in thousands of papers in the peer reviewed literature including 15 major International Conferences and numerous books and reviews. Break-out sessions have been held at the annual conference of both the American Physical Society and the American Chemical Society which recently hosted its 4th multi-day symposium in San Francisco on what are now called Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, LENR.