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The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize

BobbyBroccoli

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In the year 2000, an unknown German postdoc set the world of physics on fire. This is the rise of Jan Hendrik Schön. Part 1 of 3.

Part 2: Suspicions are swirling and Bell Labs is b...
Part 3: How to lose a Ph.D in 127 pages

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0:00 Intro
0:55 Chapter 1 - Stockholm
3:39 Chapter 2 - Profile of a Winner
14:52 Chapter 3 - Bell Labs
18:36 Chapter 4 - The End of Moore's Law
22:50 Chapter 5 - The Future is Plastic
29:09 Chapter 6 - Publish or Perish
34:36 Chapter 7 - Welcome to the Club

Jan Hendrik Schön, the Bell Labs Fraud. Plastic Fantastic. Bertram Batlogg. Schön affair, Schön scandal. Nobel Prize fraud.

20 Comments

@4musedtv 4 years ago

Just for the record, the fact the man who invented the lithium-ion battery being named John B. Goodenough will never not be funny

@kitsune_thunder 3 months ago

the man who almost faked his laundry

@thewhitefalcon8539 1 year ago

Bell Labs saw the No Bell prize and said "wanna bet?"

@El_Omar2203 4 years ago (edited)

John B. Goodenough after receiving his Nobel Prize not only at 97 years old but decades after the prize worthy feat: "Good enough"

@crickling 1 year ago

Crazy that you went "Bell Labs" and I, a canadian, went "would be insane if my cell carrier was so into research" and then it was in fact actually bell as in my cell carrier

@marys.9367 8 months ago

Fun Bell Labs fact: it's the Lumon building in Severance! When I learned that, I was like wait, Bell Labs? From my Broccumentaries? She's famous (to me)

@chargernoises 10 months ago

This is probably the only piece of media in existence where the portrait of António Egas Moniz, the inventor of lobotomy, and the Best Buy logo coexisted.

@MikeSiegert 3 years ago

“You are without a doubt the worst PhD holder I’ve ever heard of.”
“But you have heard of me.”

@honeyxew469 3 years ago

“He was intelligent and had a keen sensitivity to others’ results and expectations” 4:26
The entire story foreshadowed in one sentence!!!

@ARandomMinecraftVillager 4 years ago (edited)

32:30 "Are you trying to tell me that he put them all out in two years?"
*Screen becomes the Playstation 2 Menu*

@Skriak 10 months ago

I find it darkly hilarious how often Churchill will turn up in anecdotes about eugenics. He's this godlike figure in the UK but any examination at all reveals that basically every non-WW2 thing he did was monstrous lol

@atwissssst05 2 years ago

As someone studying metallurgy, learning that Bragg was 25 when he got his Nobel prize gave me fucking whiplash. Bragg's law is MASSIVELY important to the field, literally a cornerstone of crystallography, and he was 3 years older than me when he won a Nobel prize for it lol

@DarthCalculus 4 years ago

I'm sorry, someone named "John Be Good Enough" won a Nobel Prize? Reality needs better writers

@blexellie7146 4 years ago

Transistor?? I have one of those, and we love her very much

@InturnetHaetMachine 1 year ago

Henry Kissinger, who in a sane and just world would have been tried at the Hague as a war criminal, he was given the Nobel Peace Prize. Given this fact, had Schön won the Nobel Prize, it wouldn't be the most ridiculous award.

@GibusWearingMann 4 years ago

Further details, since I was curious: Bell Labs won their Oscar for their "multi-cellular high-frequency horn and receiver," their Grammy for "outstanding technical contributions to the recording field," and their now five(!) Emmys for, in order: their work on HDTV, their work on DVR, fiber-optic cables, the CCD you mentioned, and the .ISO file format.

@spaceowl9246 4 years ago

I always ask myself: How many frauds are there that run around with a PhD and never get caught?

@reverendaero 3 years ago

11:54 I called it, began yelling and jumping around in midair "YES I GOT IT!" then realized I was excited because I knew a bunch of important scientists were into Eugenics and quieted back down immediately.