French physicist Étienne Klein loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation
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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 plagiarism in 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 concluded that parts of his doctoral thesis were plagiarized, leading to the revocation of his doctor's title.
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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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