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Wikipedia still cites a retracted paper on “Schön scandal”
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The source
Superconductivity in single crystals of the fullerene C70
Jan Hendrik Schön, Christian Kloc, Theo Siegrist, MIke Steigerwald et al.
Nature · published October 2001 · cited 33 times by other papers
Retracted Mar 6, 2003
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