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Nature 418, 261 (18 July 2002) | doi:10.1038/418261b
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California lab fires physicist over retracted finding
Rex Dalton
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in California has fired a physicist for allegedly fabricating data that contributed to a 1999 article on the purported discovery of two heavy elements.Victor Ninov was fired in May after a year of internal probes into claims of scientific misconduct involving the apparent discovery of elements 118 and 116, reported in Physical Review Letters (V.
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