Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World: The Astonishing Story of Failed Genius Jan Hendrik Schon and His Fake Superconductor Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World: The Astonishing Story of Failed Genius Jan Hendrik Schon and His Fake Superconductor Book

Schon's discovery of a plastic that worked as a superconductor was noted as a scientific triumph before revelations that his discoveries were fake. This book analyzes the fraud and considers pressures that force unscrupulous behaviour from science's rising stars.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Jan Hendrik Schon was a wunderkind physicist at the world-renowned Bell Laboratories when he claimed to have discovered an easy method for making transistors, the switches that power computer chips. Had his experiments worked, they would have...

  • 0230224679
  • 9780230224674
  • Eugenie Samuel Reich
  • 19 May 2009
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 272
  • 1
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