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Plastic Fantastic

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Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World is a 2009 book by U.S.-based science reporter Eugenie Samuel Reich.[1]

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In Plastic Fantastic, Reich investigates how Jan Hendrik Schön, a young physicist working in the field of advanced microelectronics at Bell Labs, was able to repeatedly fabricate scientific results to mislead his collaborators, journal editors, and the scientific community. The book is based on interviews with 126 scientists.[2][3][4]

The book carries ISBN 978-0-230-22467-4, and was initially published by Palgrave MacMillan.[5]

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References

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  1. ^ "Eugenie Samuel Reich". National Association of Science Writers. September 30, 2012. Archived from the original on November 9, 2013.
  2. ^ Jamieson, Valerie (27 May 2009). "Review: Plastic Fantastic by Eugenie Samuel Reich". New Scientist. No. 2710.
  3. ^ Poole, Steven (6 June 2009). "Bad science". The Guardian.
  4. ^ Ross, Greg. "An Interview with Eugenie Samuel Reich". American Scientist. Archived from the original on March 16, 2017.
  5. ^ Palgrave MacMillan website