Inquiry on Superconductor Papers

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

http://nytimes.com/2002/07/09/science/physical/09BELL.html
New York Times, July 9, 2002

Lucent Panel Broadens Inquiry to Superconductor Papers
By KENNETH CHANG

A panel investigating possible scientific fraud at Lucent Technologies'
Bell Labs has broadened the range and scope of its inquiry to include at
least four papers on novel superconductivity experiments.

Editors at Nature, the journal that published the papers, were told of the
decision on June 24. "Bell Labs called and alerted us the three
superconductivity ones were also subject to the investigation," said Karl
Ziemelis, an editor at Nature.

The panel is also examining at least one superconductivity article in the
journal Science. In May, Bell Labs set up the independent panel, led by
Dr. Malcolm R. Beasley, a professor of applied physics at Stanford
University, after outside scientists had noticed that identical graphs had
appeared in several Bell Labs papers, even though they supposedly
described different experiments.

The lead author of the three superconductivity papers, like the articles
questioned earlier, is Dr. J. Hendrik Sch�n, a scientist at Bell Labs in
Murray Hill, N.J., who is the focus of the investigation. Dr. Bertram
Batlogg, a former director of solid state physics research at Bell Labs
and now a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in
Zurich, is an author of two of the papers

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