On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 03:06:40PM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > Russell, > > Are you telling me only a single person, Bruno's advisor, was the judge of > whether Bruno's paper should be awarded the prize?
I doubt X had anything to do with the award of the prize, since it was for a PhD thesis submitted to a completely different university (Lille) to where X is employed (ULB). Also X was not Bruno's PhD advisor, but rather his honours advisor, some 20 years earlier. > And that single person > first approved it and then rejected it when he had some dispute with Bruno? > That sounds quite strange to me. Normally it would be a whole panel of > judges to approve it, and the whole panel to reject it. > > Edgar > X clearly had sufficient influence within the ULB to convince a committee to deem Bruno's original thesis "unreceivable". That was why he wrote another thesis, which was accepted at Lille, and for which the prize was awarded. It is speculation that he had anything to do with the mysterious retraction be Le Monde, but no other hypothesis seems to fit the facts. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
