LENR Researcher Talbot Chubb Dies

Physicist and LENR researcher Talbot Chubb died today. He was 88. Cause of death was related to a heart condition and other general health issues, according to one of his daughters, Carroll Chubb.

Chubb worked for 31 years at the Naval Research Laboratory, then later at University Space Research Associates, Bendix Field Engineering Corporation and Oakton International Corp.

Chubb also worked on the Manhattan project during World War II at the Tennessee Eastman Co. facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and had more than 80 refereed publications and 25 patents to his credit.

Chubb’s enthusiasm for cold fusion research, as evident in an e-mail he wrote in 2005, was as unmistakable as his smile.

“What excitement when Fleischmann and Pons announced the discovery of nuclear heat release during heavy water electrolysis onto a Pd cathode!,” Chubb wrote. “The fact that Fleischmann and Pons were respected hands-on electrochemists kept me from summarily dismissing their claims. When nephew Scott Chubb pointed out that many-body electron systems were modeled without an explicit Coulomb barrier, I had to take the cold fusion possibility seriously.

“When I learned that the 2 electrons in the ground-state helium atom had electron-electron wave function overlap, I became hooked. I bought into Scott’s idea that under some conditions deuterons in a metal can configure themselves into a wave-like geometry, like electrons in a metal. I have  been exploring the Ion Band State picture ever since.”

Talbot Chubb – Photo by D. Nagel