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Leader of team that discovered elements 110 in 1994, & 111 & 112 in 1996. Group reanalyzed its data for the 3 superheavy elements after LBNL`s retraction. While the researchers ultimately validated evidence for all of the elements, some of the data, which Ninov analyzed, were ~spuriously created~, possibly because of ~human failure~ [Eur. Phys. J. A, 14, p. 147 (2002)]. But Hofmann himself is more direct: ~We found clear evidence that the first decay chain [for element 112] published in 1996 was faked & did not exist in the original data files~
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