for their contribution to published work". The American Physical Society has also called for increased ethical training and oversight at research institutions, and has sponsored several speakers in an effort to make the scientific community more comfortable and resilient to scientific fraud. Reports on the Ninov affair were released around the same time as the final report on the Schön affair, another major incident of data falsification in physics, and this amplified its impact. Current life Ninov is retired from physics. He lives in California. His wife, Caroline Cox, a former history professor at University of the Pacific, died in 2014 of cancer. They were married for 29 years. Ninov helped finish her book, Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution, and it was published postmortem. He is an avid sailor, and pilots a four-seat plane. See also List of experimental errors and frauds in physics List of scientific misconduct incidents References External links Observation of Superheavy Nuclei Produced in the Reaction of 86Kr with 208Pb – Communication in "Physical Review Letters" stating observation of the element 118 published by Victor Ninov's research group Sanacacio.net Copy of NY Times article on the Ninov controversy Atomic Lies An essay about V. Ninov's career Living people 1959 births Academic scandals American nuclear physicists American people of Bulgarian descent Bulgarian nuclear physicists People involved in scientific misconduct incidents University of California, Berkeley staff Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni Oganesson Livermorium