More of Bell Labs Physicist's Papers Retracted

In 2001, Jan Hendrik Schön, the former physics prodigy at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, cranked out papers at the astounding average rate of one every 8 days. Now, in the wake of a 25 September Bell Labs report that concluded Schön had committed widespread misconduct (Science, 4 October 2002, p. 30), the retractions are coming almost as fast. In November, Science published retractions of eight papers by Schön and colleagues. Nature posted linked warnings to its electronic versions of Schön's papers and said it would soon issue retractions in print. In the latest round of backpedaling, officials at the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) announced last month that they were issuing retractions for 12 papers Schön and co-authors had published in their journals.