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	Victor Ninov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Victor Ninov is a researcher at University of California at Berkeley who is alleged to have fabricated the evidence used to claim the creation of ununoctium and ununhexium.
		Ninov continues to deny vigorously any wrong-doing and maintains his innocence of any intent to commit fraud.
		Ninov's work at GSI was also called into question by his colleagues because subsequent re-analysis of the GSI data found that it had been altered.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victor_Ninov (162 words)

	The Daily Californian
		Victor Ninov, the scientist who was fired from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for allegedly fabricating data to support the discovery of two periodic elements, feels as though an earthquake has shaken up his entire life.
		Ninov, who was dismissed from the lab in May after several committees concluded that he alone falsified data to support the discovery of elements 116 and 118, holds that he did not manufacture any of the experiment's data.
		Caroline Cox, Ninov's wife and an assistant professor at University of the Pacific, said the lab never established a motive for her husband's dismissal and called the investigation "narrow" and "inadequate." She was also critical of the lab's decision not to bring independent experts into the investigation.
	www.dailycal.org /particle.php?id=8981 (695 words)

	SCIENCE / Accusations of Fraud / Fired Lawrence lab physicist's earlier data also questioned (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		To his Berkeley friends, Ninov was an amiable, hard-working, highly professional physicist who could play the violin as well as fix a cranky lab gadget, who sailed across the Pacific on a 45-foot sailboat with two associates, and who was badly hurt in an avalanche while mountain-climbing about a decade ago.
		Ninov was second author on the original papers that reported the results of those experiments, which were conducted at his former place of employment, a scientific research institute called GSI, run by the German government.
		Ninov claimed he antagonized other researchers at the Berkeley laboratory by insisting on caution before announcing the discovery of the new element, 118, but he gave few details.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/07/21/MN141703.DTL (1745 words)

	Physics Today September 2002
		During the new run, coworkers recall, Ninov announced at a team meeting that his analysis program, which was supposed to search the raw data files for evidence of alphas correlated in time and space, had found a new 118 decay sequence.
		After interviewing Ninov and other principals in the light of the Lynch technical report, Loken recommended that the laboratory proceed to a formal investigation of Ninov's conduct under the provisions of LBNL's stated policy on integrity in research.
		Ninov, who got his PhD at GSI in 1992, was a major participant in those experiments before he came to Berkeley in 1997.
	www.aip.org /pt/vol-55/iss-9/p15.html (1640 words)

	The Daily Californian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Nuclear physicist Victor Ninov was terminated after a five-month investigation determined Ninov alone falsified his results, the lab said.
		Ninov filed a grievance against the lab protesting his dismissal.
		Ninov's colleagues said they regret his alleged fraud.
	www.dailycal.org /article.php?id=8965 (591 words)

	'Element 118' team seen as remiss / Lawrence Berkeley researchers didn't check physicist's data
		Ninov, who was lead author on the 1999 scientific article that reported the discovery, "was the only collaboration member doing (data) analysis in 1999.
		Ninov also proposed that an unknown lab staffer was "angry at the large amount" of time that the 88-inch cyclotron was used for the element 118 search.
		Ninov implied that the staffer might have faked the data as revenge.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/08/03/BA229566.DTL (764 words)

	New York Times Full Document
		Several days later, he began telling colleagues that he had observed three instances of what appeared to be the decay of a 118 nucleus to form element 116 (also never before observed) then 114, 112.
		''Victor was really one of the world's experts in doing this kind of analysis and using the program,'' Dr. Loveland said.
		Ninov had insisted to them that it was premature to repudiate the discovery before more experiments were done.
	sanacacio.net /118_saga/story.html (2603 words)

	Webshots AP News Headlines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The individual singled out by Shank, but not identified by him, was identified by several newspapers as fired physicist Victor Ninov.
		Ninov was suspended by the lab in November, later fired and has a grievance pending regarding his dismissal.
		There was no phone number listed in California for Ninov, and calls to the lab's spokesman seeking further comment were not immediately returned.
	daily.webshots.com /content/ap/current/h31251819.html (372 words)

	Berkeley Daily Planet
		An investigation by four high-level scientists into the alleged fabrication of two new elements has determined a well-respected nuclear researcher was the sole person capable of the fraud.
		Victor Ninov was the only scientist in the prestigious Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory research group who had access to the original data, and he announced a discovery in 1999 that proved false, the investigators said.
		Ninov was fired in April as a result of the findings, but has maintained his innocence.
	www.berkeleydaily.org /article.cfm?archiveDate=08-05-02&storyID=13897 (300 words)

	Sludge Deserves a Closer Look (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The sham "discovery" of elements 116 and 118 seems to be a case of scientific misconduct, according to officials at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL), who have dismissed a scientist for fabricating data.
		Although the lab won't name the physicist at the center of the controversy, it appears to be Victor Ninov.
		A spokesperson at LBL refused to describe details of the misconduct or even to mention Ninov's name, but he confirmed that Ninov indeed led the initial analysis effort in the element 116 and 118 experiments.
	bric.postech.ac.kr /science/97now/02_7now/020715c.html (291 words)

	C&EN: TODAY'S HEADLINES - SUPERHEAVY FUROR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The laboratory suspended Ninov in November 2001 pending the results of a formal investigation.
		Ninov, whom colleagues have described as a respected and talented scientist, tells CandEN he stands by his original research.
		Ninov says he has been corresponding with the GSI team and that the inconsistencies could be due to computer errors.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/topstory/8029/8029notw6.html (697 words)

	PUSHING THE LIMITS OF THE PERIODIC TABLE
		Physicist Victor Ninov was the only member of the lab’s 16-member team to be dismissed in the incident, and he is appealing the decision.
		The physicist Victor Ninov, born in Bulgaria, received his PhD in 1992 for his studies at the Heavy Ion Research Center (GSI) in Darmstadt (Germany).
		Ninov was placed on paid leave in November 2001 and fired in May 2002.
	www.gravitywarpdrive.com /Pushing_Limits_of_Periodic_Table.htm (3647 words)

	Island of stability
		Peter Armbruster and his colleagues at GSI - including Victor Ninov, first author of the now-successful collaboration at LBNL - succeeded to synthesize deformed heavy nuclei with proton numbers Z=107 to 112 in the years 1981 - 1996.
		Victor Ninov (figure 3) and his colleagues from LBNL and Oregon State University reached this remarkable breakthrough at LBNL's 88-Inch-Cyclotron.
		Hence, it is not yet possible to directly confirm that ^293 118 is the parent of the decay chain.
	www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de /~q61/el118.html (1311 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Elementary mistake due to falsified data
		Several US newspapers name the sacked physicist as Victor Ninov, the first author on the paper reporting the original discovery of element 118.
		Ninov is understood to have filed a grievance challenging his dismissal.
		At a meeting of employees in late June, Shank said the debacle should be a warning to scientists that "all coauthors have a responsibility before a paper is published to verify the data.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn2545 (389 words)

	Geography 405: Research Methods
		Ninov recorded his observations by hand on two sheets of yellow paper.
		A couple of weeks later, after a second accelerator run, Dr. Ninov announced that he had found another chain.
		Records from the 1999 run also indicated that at least one of the original three chains had been edited in a similar manner — by someone using the account Vninov.
	ludwig.missouri.edu /405/fakery.html (2498 words)

	ABC Online Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Last year the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US sacked physicist Victor Ninov after an internal review committee found that he had fabricated data purporting to show the existence of a new element containing 118 protons.
		The latest element 110 paper points out that "the raw data containing each of the two decay chains have been subjected to close scrutiny to ensure that these events are not the result of the same process leading to the incorrect report of element 118".
		Although Ninov is not one of the co-authors, he is acknowledged for his participation in the work.
	www2b.abc.net.au /science/k2/stn/archives/archive65/newposts/579/topic579257.shtm (745 words)

	September/October Grapevine
		Then the Labs asked a committee to investigate (R. Vogt of CalTech was Chair), while Ninov’s German University also began to reexamine Ninov’s earlier data leading to the discovery of elements 110, 111 and 112.
		Ninov suggested that data may have been removed by evil doers, or corrupted by bugs in the program.
		Ninov, though fired by Berkeley, says he will be justified.
	www.theclockmag.com /september/sept_oct_grapevine.htm (2717 words)

	Berkeley Lab Research Review Summer 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Gregorich and Ninov are members of Berkeley Lab's Nuclear Science Division (NSD).
		I only wish Glenn Seaborg had been alive to see these results." Seaborg, the recently deceased Nobel laureate chemist and co-discoverer of plutonium and nine other transuranic elements, was one of the earliest and most outspoken advocates of experiments to reach the predicted island of stability.
		Victor Ninov and Ken Gregorich of Nuclear Science at the new Berkeley Gas-Filled Separator (BGS).
	www.lbl.gov /Science-Articles/Research-Review/Magazine/1999/departments/breaking_news.shtml (1265 words)

	What's New by Bob Park - Friday, July 19, 2002
		MISCONDUCT: MAYBE THE DISEASE IS Following a year-long internal investigation, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has fired a physicist, Victor Ninov, for fabricating data in the 1999 "discovery" of elements 118 and 116 and formally retracted the Physical Review Letter that announced the discovery (V. Ninov et al.
		The physics community was already in shock over the investigation of Jan Schoen at Bell Labs, who had seemed to be a rising star, for allegedly fabricating results (WN 24 May 02).
		While Ninov and Schoen were first authors on the papers in question, they had as many as 15 coauthors.
	bobpark.physics.umd.edu /WN02/wn071902.html (493 words)

	US scientist 'altered data' to create new element - Team Ninja Bulletin Board
		An investigation into the alleged fabrication of the element has determined a well-respected nuclear researcher was the only person capable of the suspected fraud.
		Victor Ninov was the only scientist in the prestigious Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory research group who had access to the original data.
		He announced the discovery in 1999 that proved false, the investigators said.
	www.team-ninja.com /vbulletin/showthread.php?t=13717 (301 words)

	Science News Online (6/12/99): New elements pop in, cousins may linger
		Experiments have begun there this week to attempt to duplicate and improve upon the results, he says.
		Victor Ninov of Lawrence Berkeley (Calif.) National Laboratory led a team of government and university scientists in the recent experiments.
		By pummeling a lead target for more than 10 days with roughly a million trillion krypton ions, the team made three atoms of 118, which quickly decayed into 116, 114, and other elements.
	www.sciencenews.org /sn_arc99/6_12_99/fob2.htm (476 words)

	Brieflies - Energy Science News 09/99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		"We jumped over a sea of instability onto an island of stability that theories have been predicting since the 1970s," said Victor Ninov, one of the discovering scientists.
		Ninov and Ken Gregorich at LBNL used the 88-Inch Cyclotron to bombard targets of lead with an intense beam of high-energy krypton ions.
		Increased plant growth may actually lower the effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO) emissions on global climate, according to studies conducted in Wisconsin and North Carolina.
	www.pnl.gov /energyscience/09-99/brf.htm (619 words)

	Socialism Today - Scientific fraud
		But this year the laboratory was forced to announce that the results had been fabricated.
		A physicist, Victor Ninov, who was in charge of data analysis for the experiments, was fired.
		On the other side of the continent, Jan Hendrik Schön, a physicist at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey was forging a brilliant career in the field of nanoelectronics — the production of ever smaller and faster semi-conductor devices for digital systems.
	www.socialismtoday.org /70/science.html (649 words)

	Element 118 discovered at Berkeley (June 1999) - News - PhysicsWeb
		The retraction followed an investigation into alleged scientific misconduct by one of the authors, Victor Ninov.
		"We have jumped over a sea of instability onto an island of stability that theories have been predicting since the 1970s, " said Victor Ninov, the first author on the paper describing the results.
		Report on the Formal Investigation of Alleged Scientific Misconduct by LBNL Staff Scientist, Dr Victor Ninov (6M pdf file)
	physicsweb.org /articles/news/3/6/5/1 (471 words)

	Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Rowe, T. Ginter, K. Gregorich, V. Ninov, J. Powell, N. Seward, D. Strellis, P. Wilk, K. Toth, J. Batchelder, F. Guo, J. Cerny, “Decays of the New Isobars
		Gregorich, V. Ninov, D. Strellis, C. Laue, P. Wilk, J. Patin, “Gas-jet transport system coupled with the Berkeley gas-filled separator”, Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 217: 010-NUCL, Anaheim National Meeting, March 1999.
		Ninov, S. Abbott, K. Gregorich, P. Wilk, “Experimental work at the Berkeley Gas-Filled Separator”, 1
	www.zenspider.com /~pwilk/allabstracts.htm (1319 words)

	Victor Ninov: Cracks in Scientific Integrity Breed New Questions in High Stakes Field TYLER HILLMAN / Daily Californian ...
		Victor Ninov: Cracks in Scientific Integrity Breed New Questions in High Stakes Field TYLER HILLMAN / Daily Californian (UC Berkeley) 2aug02
		Often institutional committees are used to investigate the accused.
		Officials at Berkeley lab used such methods to investigate and fire scientist Victor Ninov for alleged data fabrication related to the erroneous discovery of elements 116 and 118.
	www.mindfully.org /Industry/Scientific-Integrity-Questions2aug02.htm (557 words)

	Provocations
		Unfortunately, attempts to reproduce his results failed and investigators noticed that he had apparently altered his data.
		The second physicist, Victor Ninov, asserted in 1999 that he and his fellow researchers had found the nuclei of elements 116 and 118.
		However, other researchers were unable to verify his findings and he was eventually dismissed from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
	www.philosophers.co.uk /cafe/provocations6.htm (878 words)

	The Objectivity of Science - Cooking the Results
		In 1999 the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at Berkeley California announced two new chemical elements following work on their 88inch Cyclotron by Victor Ninov and a team of experimenters.
		Equally stunning was the retraction of the paper less than two years later, followed by the dismissal of Ninov from the Berkeley Laboratory in May 2002.
		No misconduct was attributed to Ninov's co-workers but questions were also raised over earlier work by the same scientist at the German Research Institute at Darmstadt.
	www.skepticalinvestigations.org /objectivity/cooking.htm (720 words)

	The Times Education Supplement
		While physicists were still buzzing about scandal at Bell Labs, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory fired Victor Ninov, the physicist who had been credited in 1999 with the discovery of elements 118 and 116.
		After a year-long internal investigation, the Laboratory concluded that Ninov had fabricated the results.
		But no one seems to be talking about the most serious question.
	www.bobpark.com /Articles/Innocence.htm (689 words)

	Physics 895: Introduction to Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Therefore, and because several highly visible cases of misconduct have surfaced over the past decade or two in a variety of research fields the major funding agencies, scientific societies, and institutions of higher education have put significant emphasis on Responsible Conduct in Research.
		Scientific misconduct may have been more highly visible in medicione and life sciences, but several recent prominent cases in the physical sciences, such as the ones of Victor Ninov and Hendrik Schön, have reemphasized that every profession has to be alert.
		The Office of Sponsored Research of the University of New Hampshire has undertaken a major effort to assess all aspects and implications of Responsible Conduct in Research and to offer a suitable training program that is available online.
	www-ssg.sr.unh.edu /Physics895/RCR.htm (392 words)

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