Prof. Christl as a 'Science Detective'
12/07/2007"Where have I seen that before?" is the titel of an online news article in Nature. It tells the story of an embarrassing scientific mistake made by two foreign research groups and its discovery by Manfred Christl, a chemist at the University of Würzburg.
Despite the fact that he already retired Prof. Dr. Manfred Christl is still quite active. This is best demonstrated by his recent discovery of a pretty big scientific mistake made by Japanese and American research groups, which was published in peer-reviewed journals. The whole story is documented by Christl's correspondence with the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition and nicely commented as a news article in Nature.
