Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World is a 2009 book by American-based science reporter Eugenie Samuel Reich.[1]
Plot
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]
See also
List of books about the politics of science
The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science
Scientific misconduct
References
National Association of Science Writers website, page for Eugenie Samuel Reich
Valerie Jamieson. Review: Plastic Fantastic by Eugenie Samuel Reich New Scientist, Issue 2710, 1 June 2009
Steven Poole. Bad science The Guardian, 6 June 2009
American Scientist An Interview with Eugenie Samuel Reich
Palgrave MacMillan website
Hellenica World - Scientific Library
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/"
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
