Plastic fantastic : how the biggest fraud in physics shook the scientific world
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Plastic fantastic : how the biggest fraud in physics shook the scientific world
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
- : pbk
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First published in hardcover in 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan in the U.S.
Includes bibliographical references
Index: p. [259]-266
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内容説明
This is the story of wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Schon 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, the switches found on computer chips. Had his experiments worked, they would have paved the way for huge advances in technology - computer chips that we could stick on a dress or eyewear, or even use to make electronic screens as thin and easy-to-fold as sheets of paper. But as other researchers tried to recreate Schon's experiments, the scientific community learned that it had been duped. Why did so many top experts, including Nobel prize-winners, support Schon? What led the major scientific journals to publish his work, and promote it with press releases? And what drove Schon, by all accounts a mild-mannered, modest and obliging young man, to tell such outrageous lies?
目次
Introduction Into the Woods Hendrik A Slave to Publication Greater Expectations Not Ready to be a Product Journals with 'Special Status' Scientists Astray Plastic Fantastic The Nanotechnology Department The Fraud Taboo 'Game Over' Epilogue Notes and Additional References
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