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Plastic fantastic

Plastic fantastic

Eugenie Samuel Reich · 2009 · 266 pages

PhysicistsBiographyFraud in scienceScience, philosophyScience, social aspects

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Discusses the scientific scandal that arose when researchers at Bell Laboratories discovered that wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Schön falsified his data to prove that he had discovered a simpler way to make transistors, which would have drastically improved energy technology.

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