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Like the mythical Icarus, whose waxen wings melted when he flew too close to the sun, the soaring career of Jan Hendrik Schön came crashing down to Earth last week. Schön, a 32-year-old physicist at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, faked experimental results in at least 17 published papers, according to a report released 25 September by a panel of independent investigators. Schön had been fired from Bell Labs the previous evening, after officials there received the report. The findings mark this as one of the most extensive cases of scientific misconduct in modern history and signal a low-water mark for Bell Labs, an institution already reeling from economic troubles of its parent company, Lucent Technologies.
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