How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World
by
Eugenie Samuel Reich
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
This is the story of wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Schön who faked the discovery of a new superconductor made from plastic. A star researcher at the world-renowned Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, he claimed to have stumbled across a powerful method for making carbon-based crystals into transistors,...