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2002 in context
Nature 420, 728-729 (19 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420728a
Misconduct: The stars who fell to Earth
Rex Dalton
Abstract
Controversy has been the watchword in a year dogged by dispute. Misconduct revelations, clashes over transgenic crops, and confusion over stem cells have threatened to overshadow triumphs in fields from palaeoanthropology to fundamental physics. Nature's reporters recount the year's talking points.
He was, according to the report that brought his career to an abrupt end, "a hard working and productive scientist"; a bright and personable young man whose stunning work on molecular-scale electronic devices had him marked by some as a future Nobel prizewinner.But today, we know Jan Hendrik Schön as the perpetrator of the most outrageous fraud ever to tarnish the physical sciences, fabricating or falsifying data in at least 16 papers, many published in Nature and Science.
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