[scarmig]

Skepticism is warranted, but apparently there's infighting in the group (only 3 people can be recipients of a Nobel Prize) and one jumped the gun to get his name out there. And also apparently fear of research espionage from the PRC (not as far-fetched as it sounds).

[geertj]

Interesting.. would you have a source for those rumors?

[HDThoreaun]

It's just speculation because the third author on the first paper isn't an author on the second, better paper, and he's the one who published it.

[Firmwarrior]

Man, fucking scientists dude, they need to get their heads on straight

If you're one of the 7 people who invented room temperature superconductivity, it's not going to matter who has the Nobel Prize. You can take a part time 7 figure consulting gig and be as famous as you want to boot

[tedsanders]

Most famous discovers of famous phenomena do not get 7 figure consulting gigs. Did any discoverers of high Tc superconductors, quantum hall, topological insulators, blue LEDs, graphene get rich? Not as far as I know.

[rat9988]

He probably won't even get 6 figure consulting gig.

[nomel]

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