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Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World (Macmillan Science)
Plastic Fantastic How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World - Macmillan Science
Author: Eugenie Samuel Reich
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, the switches found on computer chips. Had h...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780230224674
ISBN-10: 0230224679
Publication Date: 5/12/2009
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Type: Hardcover
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