Robert Huggins

Robert Alan Huggins is professor emeritus at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the School of Engineering at Stanford University and Honorary Professor at the University of Kiel and the University of Ulm. He was previously Chief Scientist at the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research in Ulm. The International Society for Solid State Ionics (ISSI) held a symposium in his honor in 2009, in recognition of his work on fundamental properties and behavior of materials, solid state ionic probing techniques, catalytic behavior at gas–solid interfaces, and the development of electrodes for Lithium Ion batteries. Huggins also served as Director of Materials Sciences at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in Washington, D.C. from 1968 to 1970. He was one of the founders of the Materials Research Society in 1973. In 1987 he co-founded the International Society for Solid State Ionics (ISSI), serving as its first President from 1987 to 1989. Huggins was the founding editor of the Annual Review of Materials Science from 1971 to 1993 and the editor of the journals Solid State Ionics and Materials Research Bulletin.

As of October 1991, Huggins became the Chief Scientist of the Energy Storage and Conversion Division at the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff- Forschung, ZSW) in Ulm, Germany. where he remained until 1995. 1980, Case Centennial Scholar 1978, Vincent Bendix Award, American Society for Engineering Education

Cold fusion While at Stanford, Huggins attempted to recreate the controversial work of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann on the eventually discredited theory of cold fusion. At one point he reported success. Only weeks later, such claims were rejected by a colleague.