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A Scientist's Nightmare: Software Problem Leads to Five Retractions
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Until recently, Geoffrey Chang's career was on a trajectory most young scientists only dream about. In 1999, at the age of 28, the protein crystallographer landed a faculty position at the prestigious Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California. The next year, in a ceremony at the White House, Chang received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the country's highest honor for young researchers. His lab generated a stream of high-profile papers detailing the molecular structures of important proteins embedded in cell membranes.
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- Authors
- Miller, G.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2006-12-22
- Volume
- 314
- Issue
- 5807
- Pages
- 1856-1857
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W1835879695
- Cited by
- 201
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 25.34
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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