Talk:Jan Hendrik Schön

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Of relevance to the Schon work, a copy of the letter of Dr. Paul Solomon to Nature in November 2002 questioning some of the Schon work is available at http://www.reedsmith.com/library/publicationView.cfm?itemid=42463. (link no longer works)

[edit] Where is Jan Hendrik Schön today?

after reading that his Ph.D. was yanked in 2004, is there any web article that mentions what happened to him. where did he end up? what does he now do for a living? r b-j 07:13, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

According to Science (April 7th 2006 issue) his whereabouts are unknown. Lylum 23:02, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plagiarized sentences

Several sentences (almost entire paragraphs) in this article are taken directly from Dan Agin's book Junk Science. rvilbig December 27, 2006 at 05:57:33 (UTC)

Are you sure it's not the other way around? According to Amazon, that book was published on October 3, 2006 [1]. Comparing the present version of the article to the September 20th 2006 (the last one before the book came out), there have been only a few minor changes (punctuation etc.), no new sentences or paragraphs. In fact the last big addition was in June 2006 (a list of withdrawn journal papers), and before that, a couple sentences were added on April 20, 2006. I don't count some nonsense vandalism from 11 November removed a few minutes later. Can you find the specific edits to the article that contain sentences similar to the book? Thanks. 67.117.130.181 16:14, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Has anyone who has this book able to verify if Dan Agin has attributed wikipedia? Or if this book was published in another form before October 2006? SFC9394 18:46, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

From the author, Dan Agin: The completed manuscript for the book JUNK SCIENCE was in the hands of the publisher in September 2005, so the "Are you sure..." comment about events in 2006 is irrelevant. Advance copies of the book were already circulating in the spring of 2006 and before. It would be nice if a 300-page book could be written the day before it's printed and published, but it hasn't happened yet. Press time is usually 9 to 12 months for most hardcover books. Maybe the author of the Schon Wiki bio got material from even earlier ScienceWeek issues, also written by the same author, Dan Agin. I don't care about the copying from my book, but at least the book ought to be cited in the article! I've just compared the Wiki bio of Schon with the text in my book, and much of the bio was indeed clipped out of the book with only minor changes. I did not know until today that the bio existed. Good photo of Schon. Yours, Dan Agin. Email: dpa@scienceweek.comb5.27.07 Icarus530 19:20, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How many papers withdrawn from Nature?

I see that seven papers were withdrawn from Nature, but only five are listed. The article is behind a pay-only wall. If someone with a subscription could clear this up, it would be nice. It's a bit embarrassing as it stands. grendel|khan 17:10, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

From the Nature link:

• retraction: Superconductivity in CaCuO2 as a result of field-effect doping p92

J. H. Schön, M. Dorget, F. C. Beuran, X. Z. Zu, E. Arushanov, C. Deville Cavellin and M. Laguës doi:10.1038/nature01462

• retraction: Superconductivity in single crystals of the fullerene C70 p92

J. H. Schön, Ch. Kloc, T. Siegrist, M. Steigerwald, C. Svensson and B. Batlogg doi:10.1038/nature01463

• retraction: Self-assembled monolayer organic field-effect transistors p92

Jan Hendrik Schön, Hong Meng and Zhenan Bao doi:10.1038/nature01464

• retraction: Gate-induced superconductivity in a solution-processed organic polymer film p92

J. H. Schön, A. Dodabalapur, Z. Bao, Ch. Kloc, O. Schenker and B. Batlogg doi:10.1038/nature01465

• retraction: Superconductivity at 52 K in hole-doped C60 p93

J. H. Schön, Ch. Kloc and B. Batlogg doi:10.1038/nature01466

• retraction: Superconductivity in molecular crystals induced by charge injection p93

J. H. Schön, Ch. Kloc and B. Batlogg doi:10.1038/nature01467

• retraction: Efficient organic photovoltaic diodes based on doped pentacene p93

J. H. Schön, Ch. Kloc, E. Bucher and B. Batlogg doi:10.1038/nature01468

149.217.1.6 15:36, 25 July 2007 (UTC)