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BL
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| Record Number
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625462
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Reich, Eugenie Samuel
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| Title & Author
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Plastic fantastic : : how the biggest fraud in physics shook the scientific world /\ Eugenie Samuel Reich
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed
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| Page. NO
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266 pages :: illustrations,; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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0230224679
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: 9780230224674
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-258) and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Abstract
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This work presents an investigation of a scientific discovery that was revealed to be fraudulent by a journalist with a unique insight into the case. Schon's discovery of a plastic that worked as a superconductor was noted as a scientific triumph before revelations that his discoveries were fake
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| Subject
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Schön, Jan Hendrik,1970-
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Physicists-- Germany, Biography
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| Subject
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Fraud in science
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| Dewey Classification
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530.092B
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| LC Classification
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QC16.S26456R45 2009
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