Definition
Plain language
A physicist whose celebrated results on molecular electronics turned out to be invented.
As stated in the literature
Jan Hendrik Schön; large-scale data fabrication in organic semiconductor and molecular transistor papers, leading to mass retraction.
Also called: Schon, Schön-style
Why it matters: It shows how far fabricated work can travel — through top journals and enthusiastic follow-on research — before anyone checks the raw numbers.
For example, results reported across many separate experiments turned out to share identical noise patterns, revealing the underlying data had been made up.
Heard on the show
“People do lose research years to L-K ninety-nine and to Schön-style molecular transistors.”Episode 240 — Frontier Models Designed Follow-Ups To Fraudulent Papers 93% Of The Time