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[Day Permalink] Tuesday, September 17, 2002

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Big trouble in the world of "Big Physics": "Six months ago, Jan Hendrik Schön seemed like a slam dunk nominee for a Nobel prize. Then some of his colleagues started to take a closer look at his research." [Salon.com]

This is a readable account of the scientific misconduct which happened at the Bell Labs. The career pressure seduced the researcher to make false claims.