Pamela Mosier-Boss

Pamela A. Mosier-Boss is an American analytical chemist who spent her career at the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. Her research considered the development of environmental sensors and low-energy nuclear reaction.

Early life and education Mosier-Boss' mother was a nurse. Mosier-Boss studied biology and chemistry at Kent State University. She moved to Michigan State University for doctoral research, where she studied crown ether complexations.

Research and career Mosier-Boss worked on strategies to understand nuclear effects and near-surface interactions. She joined the United States Naval Research Laboratory, where she secured more patents than any woman in the history of the lab. She was based in the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, where she developed battery systems, piezoelectric ceramics and phages. The co-deposition process involved the simultaneous deposition of deuterium and palladium from electrolytes that contain palladium salts dissolved in heavy water. The films must be deposited on a substrate that does not absorb hydrogen (e.g. gold) at high negative potentials. She worked on CR-39 as a nuclear track detector, which works by monitoring the ionization trails left after the atoms of CR-39 recoil in response to high energy neutrons. a transmutation occurs, which changes the surface morphology of the Pd/D films.

In 2013, Mosier-Boss was awarded the Infinite Energy Preparata Medal in recognition of her work on cold fusion.

Selected publications