Plastic Fantastic How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World

Name: Plastic Fantastic How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World
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ISBN: 9780230623842

ISBN-10: 0230623840

ISBN-13: 9780230623842

Edition: 2010

Authors: Eugenie Samuel Reich

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Highly regarded science journalist Eugenie Samuel Reich recounts the case of wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Schon, who faked the discovery of a new superconductor at the world famous Bell Laboratories. Many of the world's top scientific journals and experts, including Nobel Prize-Winners, supported Schon, only to learn that they were the victims of the biggest fraud in science. What drove Schon, by all accounts a mild-mannered, modest, and obliging young man, to tell such outrageous lies? Reich dives into the riveting world of science to examine how fraud perpetuates itself today. Schon's rise and fall will be an essential and fascinating account of the missteps of the scientific…

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List price: $20.50
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 4/27/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.19" wide x 9.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Introduction


Into the Woods


Hendrik


A Slave to Publication


Greater Expectations


Not Ready to be a Product


Journals with ï¿½Ç£Special Statusï¿½Ç


Scientists Astray


Plastic Fantastic


The Nanotechnology Department


The Fraud Taboo


ï¿½Ç Game Overï¿½ï¿½ï¿½


Epilogue


Notes and Additional References