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0 pointsguerrilla2y ago0 comments

It sounds like you don't know the history. They were doing other unrelated things in the meantime, not working in this.

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I'm aware of that.

But if I was an early-career researcher looking to establish myself, secure funding and maybe a tenure-track position, and I had a nobel-prize-winning discovery up my sleeve, I can't imagine many things that would take precedence.

I mean, obviously whatever happened happened. It just seems strange to simultaneously claim to have discovered something 24 years ago, and to have been rushed into publishing prematurely.

guerrillaOP2y ago

> It just seems strange to simultaneously claim to have discovered something 24 years ago, and to have been rushed into publishing prematurely.

They had to get other jobs to survive. Somone else forced their hand with the publication. There's nothing incosistent about that.

lolinder2y ago

There was no one who would be willing to fund their research into a room temperature semiconductor? Even though they had a sample that passed the basic tests?

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Qem2y ago

> mean, obviously whatever happened happened. It just seems strange to simultaneously claim to have discovered something 24 years ago, and to have been rushed into publishing prematurely.

Probably there was a big team. Somebody with a low rank worked his/her ass off on the breakdown, but then noticed their names would be filled off or put only in acknowledgements section, to be replaced with some senior lab manager that did just administrative paperwork and barely knew the work. So they said screw it and just published whatever they could before the laurels were stolen.

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