French physicist Étienne Klein loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation into Ph.D. thesis
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· 2 sourcesFrench physicist and popular science communicator Étienne Klein has been stripped of his doctorate after a 20-month university investigation found he plagiarized parts of his Ph.D. thesis, Hacker News reported. Klein, a physicist at the Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) who hosts a weekly radio show and has published over 30 books, had faced plagiarism accusations in his popular science writing since 2016. The investigation was triggered in August 2024 when online outlet Arr revealed issues with his scholarly work, leading to the university's decision to revoke his doctor's title, according to the same source.
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French physicist and popular science communicator Étienne Klein has been stripped of his doctorate after a 20-month university investigation found he plagiarized parts of his Ph.D. thesis. Klein, a physicist at the Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) who hosts a weekly radio show and has published over 30 books, had faced plagiarism accusations in his popular science writing since 2016. The investigation was triggered in August 2024 when online outlet Arr revealed issues with his scholarly work, leading to the university's decision to revoke his doctor's title.
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· 3 pulledOne of France's most famous science communicators has been stripped of his doctor's title after a 20-month university investigation found evidence that he plagiarized in his Ph.D. thesis.
Étienne Klein, a physicist at the Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) who has published more than 30 books and hosts a weekly radio show about science, has faced accusations of plagiarism in his popular science writing since 2016.
In August 2024, questions arose about his scholarly work as well, when the online outlet Arr
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