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New books from NPG and Palgrave

Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World is the title of a new book by Eugenie Samuel Reich. The book tells the story of Jan Hendrick Schön ‘s discovery of a plastic that worked as a superconductor – hailed as a scientific triumph before revelations that his discoveries were fake. (See here for Nature’s editorial about the journal’s retraction of seven papers by Schön.) This book analyses the fraud and considers pressures that force unscrupulous behaviour from science’s rising stars. 

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