Physicist Loses Degree for Data Falsification

cheese_wallet writes "Jan Hendrik Schoen was stripped of his doctoral degree by his university for fabricating data in his research. From the article: 'Schoen, now 34, was fired by Bell Laboratories in New Jersey in September 2002 after an outside review committee concluded that he made up or altered data 16 times while working in the hot fields of superconductivity and molecular electronics'."

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alternative careers

[Anonymous Coward]

he has a secure future in politics at least

Re:This is news worthy of a slashdot article?

[Fred_A]

Depends what field you work in.

If he moved to politics, he'd probably have a successful career.

Re:The merits of pHDs

[Anonymous Coward]

I always thought it was a receipt for $120,000 paid to my university (i.e. the most expensive piece of paper I'll ever buy)

I take it you don't have a marriage certificate then ;-)