A member of a UC Berkeley research team that competed with Russian and West German teams to find the remaining elements in the periodic table. When the other countries’ teams tried to replicate Berkeley’s experiment, it was discovered that Ninov faked some of his data by inputting false positives. Ninov was subsequently fired and his team was disgraced.
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Chapter 7: Extending the Table, Expanding the Cold War
...the experiment, they did not get the same results: a member of the Berkley team, Victor Ninov , had faked the data, inputting false positives. Ninov was fired and Berkeley was forced...
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