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South Korean chemist Mu Shik Jhon (January 22, 1932 - August 13, 2004) was a prolific author on the chemistry of water, and prominent in the South Korean scientific community.
In recent years, certain of his claims about water have been adopted by sellers of health products regarded as pseudoscience by other chemists. These claims reached a wider audience with the 2004 translation into English of a book he wrote about his research into what he terms hexagonal water.
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[edit] Bio
Jhon was born in Daegu, South Korea, and earned a Bachelors degree and Masters degree in Chemistry from Seoul National University in 1954 and 1958. For 9 years he taught at Dongguk University. He then went to the University of Utah from which he earned a PhD in Chemistry in 1966. After graduation he became an assistant professor at the University of Virginia, until 1969 when he returned to South Korea to head a lab at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). He became a Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1971, where he initiated the establishment of the Institute for Theoretical Research of Physical Chemistry in 1977.[1][2]
He has served as president of several organizations, such as the Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA) from 2000-2004 and the Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) from 1998-2001.[3]
Jhon is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.
[edit] Hexagonal water controversy
Jhon has authored or co-authored several papers on the theoretical existence of 'hexagonal water'. He uses the term 'hexagonal', meaning six-sided, to describe a stable combination of six ordinary H20 water molecules joined together in a larger 'cluster' of molecules. Not only does Jhon assert that these clusters exist, but he also asserts that they have unique properties, properties that can enhance health.
For example, several alternative health product web sites feature the following quote attributed to his 1986 presentation at a cancer symposium on the molecular water environment theory:
These web sites market water that is alledgedly hexagonal water, and devices that alledgedly enable the purchaser to create their own hexagonal water.
Critics have responded that 'hexagonal water' does not exist, that the properties of water sold under the label 'hexagonal water' are not unique, and that those properties do not enhance health.[6][7]
[edit] Articles and books
- List of 267 publications from 1964-2001
- Significant Liquid Structures, 1969, co-authored with American chemist Henry Eyring, John Wiley and Sons Inc., N.Y., ISBN 0471249823
- The Water Puzzle and the Hexagonal Key: Scientific Evidence of Hexagonal Water and its Positive Influence on Health, 2004, translated from Korean and edited by M.J. Pangman, Uplifting Press Inc., ISBN 0-9752726-0-8
[edit] External links
[edit] Supportive of hexagonal water
- Extracts from Jhon's 2004 book, on a web site marketing hexagonal water for pets
- Commentary on hexagonal water and other structured water by Monte Kline
- Brochure on a product that produces hexagonal water, contains descriptions of the scientific claims
- Another description of science of hexagonal water from a web site marketing it
- another
- Review of the 2004 book by the editor, also here
- Interview of Pangman, translator of Jhon's 2004 book
[edit] Critical of hexagonal water
- 2005 review by NMR specialist of Jhnon's 2004 book, reports inability to reproduce Jhon’s claims also here
- Water Cluster Quackery: The Junk Science of Structure-Altered Waters, by Chemist Stephen Lower
- Water, Water, Everywhere, Caveat Emptor (Buyer Beware)! by Paul K. Shin, PhD Chemistry, instructor at California State University, Northridge, March 8, 2005 archive of article in August 2004 edition of the Latest Magazine
