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International - Misconduct Cases
Nobelists Urged Probe of Plagiarism by Official
Volume 11, No. 4, September 2003
A senior Indian university official and his graduate physics
student were found guilty of plagiarizing a paper on the characteristics
of black holes, published 6 years earlier by a Stanford University
professor, according to Science. 299:800).
An international group of physicists, including three Nobelists,
had urged the Indian government to investigate the allegations
after they became public.
The investigative panel concluded that the article published
by the respondents in Europhysics Letters showed "complete
similarity not only in all mathematical equations and symbols
but also in the language used and the tone, tenor, and manner
of expression of ideas."
The university official, a vice chancellor, said he would appeal
the decision to the chancellor and other authorities because he
had done nothing wrong.
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