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Why does this particular discovery merit an exception, but every other Nobel does not?
Perhaps with all the lower-hanging scientific fruit now getting more scarce, it makes sense to start allowing for a larger number of contributors to be recognized, even if they don't necessarily share in the prize money. Why not start such a new tradition when such a practical and wide-ranging technology comes into play? (assuming this is eventually validated)
I just wrote a comment in another thread that's relevant here too. It looks like the first superconductor paper was released by a rouge researcher, without the agreement of the other two authors or the rest of the LK-99 group. This forced the LK-99 group to rush to publish the official paper, with a cost to quality. The LK-99 group released v2 a week later (on Saturday), and probably will continue to update it. A pre…
"Renegade Researcher" is not something I thought could be a thing!
What are the implications in general of room temperature superconductors? I just know that they needed typically ultra low temperatures right? But what would be the practical implications?
I just wrote a comment in another thread that's relevant here too. It looks like the first superconductor paper was released by a rouge researcher, without the agreement of the other two authors or the rest of the LK-99 group. This forced the LK-99 group to rush to publish the official paper, with a cost to quality. The LK-99 group released v2 a week later (on Saturday), and probably will continue to update it. A pre…
"Renegade Researcher" is not something I thought could be a thing!
Varmus Reprimanded Over 'Renegade Researcher' - "a former NIH geneticist accused of conducting forbidden embryo-related research on the NIH campus in 1994 and 1995." - https://www.science.org/content/article/varmus-reprimanded-o...
Biotechnology: The Renegade Researcher - who injected "genetically altered bacteria into 14 trees in the hope of protecting them from Dutch elm disease" without EPA permission - https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,965...
Renegade Researcher Says Alzheimer's Drugs From Bristol-Myers, Pfizer May Be Unsafe Or Ineffective - https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlangreth/2010/08/23/reneg...
"Elliott Kotze is a community and counselling psychologist and renegade researcher in Cape Town, South Africa." - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095935352110616...
It also finds people I would describe as being in the alt-medicine and pseudoscience fields.
What are the implications in general of room temperature superconductors? I just know that they needed typically ultra low temperatures right? But what would be the practical implications?
I just wrote a comment in another thread that's relevant here too. It looks like the first superconductor paper was released by a rouge researcher, without the agreement of the other two authors or the rest of the LK-99 group. This forced the LK-99 group to rush to publish the official paper, with a cost to quality. The LK-99 group released v2 a week later (on Saturday), and probably will continue to update it. A pre…
> The accusation is that Young-Wan Kwon published the first paper without the consent of the rest of the LK-99 team, listed himself as third author, and left off the other four. Two hours later, the rest of the LK-99 team stuffed as much as they had into the second paper, and released it as soon as possible. Kwon has already left the company early this year according to recent interviews. Moreover a supposed private…
He may be just a grifter. Or he may have played a key role in the discovery but was going to be put as the 6th author (at best) in the joint paper. If so, he has already gained much more recognition than he would have otherwise.
1) it takes a undergrad to make and measure a superconductor but a Nobel laureate to explain it.
2) in theory if you understand the mechanism of something you can improve it. In material science however almost always all you need is a trial and error approach to end up with a good result.
Conclusion: the effect is probably true, the explanation not
edit: typo