The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize
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BobbyBroccoli's first of three parts on Jan Hendrik Schon, the Bell Labs postdoc whose fabricated organic semiconductor results nearly won a Nobel Prize. It covers his rise and the context around Bell Labs.
Why HN recommends it: HN repeatedly recommends the series as a gripping account of scientific fraud, and cites it whenever research misconduct comes up.
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