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Professor expelled from university for inventing 'fake Nobel prize' and awarding it to himself

Euronews · May 7, 2026, 9:11 AM · Also reported by 3 other sources

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A lecturer-researcher from Besançon is at the centre of a scandal rocking academia: he is suspected of having fabricated an international philology award in order to give it to himself. The ruse has seen him expelled from his university.

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Professor expelled from university for inventing 'fake Nobel prize' and awarding it to himself

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