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Published online 26 September 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020923-9
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Physicist found guilty of misconduct
Bell Labs dismisses young nanotechnologist for falsifying data.
An up-and-coming young physicist at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, has been dismissed after being found guilty of 16 counts of scientific misconduct by a review panel charged with investigating his research.
The panel's report, released yesterday, concludes that Jan Hendrik Schön duplicated, falsified and destroyed data.
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