Ebook: Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World

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.;Discusses the scientific scandal that arose when researchers at Bell Laboratories discovered that wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Schön falsified his data to prove that he had discovered a simpler way to make transistors, which would have drastically improved energy technology.