Jan Hendrik Schön and his colleague Zhenan Bao at Bell LabsSix months ago, the young German physicist Jan Hendrik Schön seemed like the next best thing to Einstein. But then some of his colleagues took a closer look at his research and unraveled a scientific scandal.Two years ago an up-and-coming physicist from Germany named Jan Hendrik Schön burst onto the science scene with some revolutionary experimental results. The 32-year-old academic, who was involved in researching nanotechnology at the prestigious Bell Labs in New Jersey, claimed he had succeeded in creating field-effect transistors out of tiny molecules that don’t ordinarily...