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

by Eugenie Samuel Reich

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Highly regarded science journalist Eugenie Samuel Reich recounts the case of wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Sch n, 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 Sch n, only to learn that they were the victims of the biggest fraud in science. What drove Sch n, by all accounts a mild-mannered, modest, and obliging...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0230623840

ISBN13:9780230623842

Release Date:April 2010

Publisher:St. Martin's Griffin

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.74 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Biographies Electromagnetism Experiments & Projects Experiments, Instruments & Measurement History & Philosophy Physics Quantum Theory Research Science Science & Math

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