Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World: MacMillan Science
Autor Eugenie Samuel Reichen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2010
Highly regarded science journalist Eugenie Samuel Reich recounts the case of wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Schon, who faked the discovery of a new superconductor at the world famous Bell Laboratories. Many of the world's top scientific journals and experts, including Nobel Prize-Winners, supported Schon, only to learn that they were the victims of the biggest fraud in science. What drove Schon, by all accounts a mild-mannered, modest, and obliging young man, to tell such outrageous lies? Reich dives into the riveting world of science to examine how fraud perpetuates itself today. Schon's rise and fall will be an essential and fascinating account of the missteps of the scientific community for years to come."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780230623842
ISBN-10: 0230623840
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 152 x 231 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: St. Martin's Griffin
Seria MacMillan Science
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0230623840
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 152 x 231 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: St. Martin's Griffin
Seria MacMillan Science
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom
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Descriere
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 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 Schön's experiments, the scientific community learned that it had been duped. Why did so many top experts, including Nobel prize-winners, support Schön? What led the major scientific journals to publish his work, and promote it with press releases? And what drove Schön, by all accounts a mild-mannered, modest and obliging young man, to tell such outrageous lies?
But as other researchers tried to recreate Schön's experiments, the scientific community learned that it had been duped. Why did so many top experts, including Nobel prize-winners, support Schön? What led the major scientific journals to publish his work, and promote it with press releases? And what drove Schön, by all accounts a mild-mannered, modest and obliging young man, to tell such outrageous lies?
Cuprins
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
Recenzii
'Reich's account is meticulously researched, based on interviews with over 120 scientists, friends and editors. It is gripping stuff: a surprising page-turner that is well worth reading.' - New Scientist
' . . .a wonderful piece of forensic writing.' - Financial Times
'Reich pursues this affair in depth . . .does an excellent job of dealing with the facts of the Schön case.' - Martin Blume, Nature
'Reich's readable account of a fairly recent science fraud, is valuable chiefly as a close look at the 'kitchen' where scientific results are assembled and validated - and whence occasionally comes forth something that should not have seen the light of day.' - John Derbyshire, The Wall Street Journal
'Eugenie Samuel Reich offers an inside look into how the scientific establishment deals with human imperfection. Plastic Fantastic is a transfixing cautionary tale of how easily wrongdoers can hide and thrive in modern science.' - Jörg Blech, author of Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills
'In a warts 'n all expose of the scientific process, Eugenie Reich investigates the world's greatest scientific fraud. Fascinating, startling and highly readable. If you thought science was as pure as the driven snow, prepare to be shocked.' - Justin Mullins, consultant editor, New Scientist
'A riveting tale of scientific detective work, and a story about an important issue in science that is often overlooked. A well researched page-turner.' - Amir Aczel, author of Fermat's Last Theorem
' . . .a wonderful piece of forensic writing.' - Financial Times
'Reich pursues this affair in depth . . .does an excellent job of dealing with the facts of the Schön case.' - Martin Blume, Nature
'Reich's readable account of a fairly recent science fraud, is valuable chiefly as a close look at the 'kitchen' where scientific results are assembled and validated - and whence occasionally comes forth something that should not have seen the light of day.' - John Derbyshire, The Wall Street Journal
'Eugenie Samuel Reich offers an inside look into how the scientific establishment deals with human imperfection. Plastic Fantastic is a transfixing cautionary tale of how easily wrongdoers can hide and thrive in modern science.' - Jörg Blech, author of Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills
'In a warts 'n all expose of the scientific process, Eugenie Reich investigates the world's greatest scientific fraud. Fascinating, startling and highly readable. If you thought science was as pure as the driven snow, prepare to be shocked.' - Justin Mullins, consultant editor, New Scientist
'A riveting tale of scientific detective work, and a story about an important issue in science that is often overlooked. A well researched page-turner.' - Amir Aczel, author of Fermat's Last Theorem
Notă biografică
EUGENIE SAMUEL REICH is a former editor at New Scientist. She has written for Nature, New Scientist, and The Boston Globe, and is known for her hard hitting reports on irregular science. Several of her reports have resulted in institutional investigations. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Caracteristici
The hardcover was reviewed in a variety of places, including The Wall Street Journal and Nature. New Scientist called it 'gripping stuff: a surprising page-turner that is well worth reading.' The Financial Times said it was 'a wonderful piece of forensic writing'
Science journalist is the perfect author, who has testified before Congress on scientific misconduct. Respected authority in field
Reich continues to publish on the topic of scientific misconduct in the leading journals, including Nature, Scientific American, New Scientist, and others