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Jan Hendrik Schön, a researcher at Bell Labs in the field of condensed matter physics, committed scientific fraud by fabricating and manipulating data in his re
by panarky 3y ago
Jan Hendrik Schön, a researcher at Bell Labs in the field of condensed matter physics, committed scientific fraud by fabricating and manipulating data in his research.
The fraud was discovered in 2002.
I'm thankful that most people can understand the difference between the institution from the fraudster, because Bell Labs has produced some amazing work since then.
- atrettel 3y agoFor those unfamiliar with the story of Jan Hendrik Schön, I suggest watching this excellent series of videos by BobbyBroccoli on YouTube [1-3]. The series does a good job breaking down the context and the situation that Schön was in, along with the incentives that encouraged Schön to commit fraud. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfDoml-Db64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfDoml-Db64 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riio1eKOSKg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riio1eKOSKg [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsSuhP60qnI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsSuhP60qnI