A short history of scientific 'fraud', from skeletons to superconductors

All students and staff welcome.

Speaker 

Prof Graeme Ackland, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh 

Abstract  

The talk will cover a number of cases of scientific fraud and alleged fraud,  starting with the origins of mankind and working through to the current debate about ambient condition superconductivity. The cases will include what the science was, what the researchers might have hoped to achieve, how the work was disseminated, what the tell tale signs were and how they were resolved.  

Refreshments

Meet us at 16.30 outside the Elm lecture theatre in the Nucleus Building for tea and cakes prior to the talk.