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Commentary
Nature 417, 789 (20 June 2002) | doi:10.1038/417789a
Is a bell tolling for Bell Labs?
Paul Grant1
- Paul Grant is a science fellow at the Electric Power Research Institute, PO Box 10412, 3412 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94303, USA.
Abstract
It would be wise of Bell Labs to help others reproduce their scientists' results.
Dark clouds quickly began to gather over the exceptional finding of superconductivity at 117 K reported last year by Hendrik Schön and collaborators at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Shortly after publication of the paper, I was asked by a reporter aware of my reputation as a sceptical observer of reports of 'unidentified superconducting objects' whether I felt uncomfortable that no one had reproduced any of the Bell Labs's field-effect transistor (FET) superconductivity results.
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