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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

2108 Physics Nobel

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In light of the 2018 Physics Nobel Prize that was announced today, I recall a story I did for The Scientist in 2005 about the development ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

September 25, 2002

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Ten years ago today, Lucent Technologies released the Final Report of our committee on possible misconduct by J. Hendrik Schön. The conclus...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

June 26, 2002: When did it start?

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The second question most people ask with respect to Hendrik Schön is "When did he start faking data?" (The first question is eit...
Friday, June 1, 2012

Confirming Expectations

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A good experiment definitively distinguishes between alternative hypotheses. But things get tricky when a well established standard view is...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

May 28, 2002: First look at internal Schön investigations

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Just after Memorial Day in 2002, our committee finally received the records of multiple internal Bell Labs investigations of the work of He...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

May 24, 2002: What got the Schön investigation going?

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Leading into the spring of 2002, there had been increasing discomfort with Hendrik Schön's stunning body of scientific results. The offi...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

May 21, 2002: Investigating the Schön Affair

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Ten years ago this week, Lucent Technologies announced that it had convened a panel to investigate possible scientific misconduct at Bell La...
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Don Monroe
Formerly a practicing physicist and electrical engineer, I have been a freelance science writer since 2003, with an ever-growing interest in biology. My publications are under "Clips" at www.DonMonroe.info.
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