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S'està carregant… Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World (Macmillan Science)de Eugenie Samuel Reich
   Macmillan Publishers (64) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  lemontwist | Dec 16, 2012 | 
 Plastic Fantastic, Eugenie Samuel Reich’s readable account of a fairly recent science fraud, is valuable chiefly as a close look at the “kitchen” where scientific results are assembled and validated—and whence occasionally comes forth something that should not have seen the light of day. . . . How did he get away with it? Why did he do it? These are the main questions that a book like Plastic Fantastic should answer. Ms. Samuel Reich does better with the first question than with the second. Throughout her narrative, Mr. Schön remains a shadow, his personality obscure, his motives a mystery. Llistes notables
This is the story of wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Sch#65533;n 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 powerful method for making carbon-based crystals into transistors, the switches found on computer chips. Had his experiments worked, they would have paved the way for huge advances in technology--computer chips that we could stick on a dress or eyewear, or even use to make electronic screens as thin and easy-to-fold as sheets of paper. But as other researchers tried to recreate Sch#65533;n's experiments, the scientific community learned that it had been duped. Why did so many top experts, including Nobel prize-winners, support Sch#65533;n? What led the major scientific journals to publish his work, and promote it with press releases? And what drove Sch#65533;n, by all accounts a mild-mannered, modest and obliging young man, to tell such outrageous lies? No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Scientists are generally an exceedingly skeptical group, however it's uncertain how we can be made aware of a forgery when we also assume that other scientists are honest about their work. If anything, this book makes me more committed to being a skeptic and to question the results I see even in published papers.
Pet peeve alert: apparently the copy editor to this book was not a scientist as the author lets slip "silicone" a couple of times when "silicon" was clearly meant to go. YIKES!!! (