Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World (MacSci) by Eugenie Samuel Reich

Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World (MacSci)

Eugenie Samuel Reich

272 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography science informative medium-paced
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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 powerfu...

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