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The rise and fall of a physics fraudster

gottabefunky — Sat, 02 May 2009 13:21:41 -0800

The rise and fall of a physics fraudster. In the spring of 2002, the world’s most productive young scientist was a 31-year-old physicist at Bell Labs in New Jersey in the US. With eight papers published in Nature and Science in 2001 alone, Jan Hendrik Schön was emerging with breathtaking speed as a star researcher in physics, materials science and nanotechnology...But in September 2002, managers at Bell Labs released a report [pdf] that...made clear that much of Schön’s data were fake. His discoveries were lies. Many of his devices had probably never existed...On the day of the report’s release, Schön was fired and fled the US to an unknown location. In all, 21 of Schon's papers were withdrawn from Nature, Science and Physical Review Journals.

You and Your Research

parudox — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:23:16 -0800

You and Your Research was a talk given by Richard Hamming in 1986. Read it if you have an interest in doing first-class work.

Silly pencil pushers! You can't KILL Physics! What's that? Oh, physics research. You've won this round!

Eideteker — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:20:58 -0800

RIP Bell Labs "After six Nobel Prizes, the invention of the transistor, laser and countless contributions to computer science and technology, it is the end of the road for Bell Labs' fundamental physics research lab."

Listening Post

plexi — Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:13:18 -0800

Listening Post: Giving Voice to Online Communication One of the most realized multimedia installations ever presented, the work of Mark Hansen from Bell Labs and Ben Rubin from earstudio. Essential.

RylandDotNet — Mon, 04 Jun 2001 16:30:33 -0800

Why is it so much fun to make a computer say dirty words?

Steven Den Beste — Sun, 17 Dec 2000 19:42:08 -0800

Dennis Ritchie's Home Page (If you have to ask who he is...)

MetaFilter posts tagged with belllabs

The rise and fall of a physics fraudster

You and Your Research

Silly pencil pushers! You can't KILL Physics! What's that? Oh, physics *research*. You've won this round!

Listening Post

Silly pencil pushers! You can't KILL Physics! What's that? Oh, physics research. You've won this round!