Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in
Physics Shook the Scientific World is a 2009
book by American-based science reporter Eugenie
Samuel Reich.
== Plot ==
In Plastic Fantastic, Reich investigates how
Jan Hendrik Schön, a young physicist working
in the field of advanced microelectronics
at Bell Labs, was able to repeatedly fabricate
scientific results to mislead his collaborators,
journal editors, and the scientific community.
The book is based on interviews with 126 scientists.The
book carries ISBN 978-0-230-22467-4, and was
initially published by Palgrave MacMillan.
== See also ==
List of books about the politics of science
The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science
Scientific misconduct
