German Education Minister Annette Schavan has denied that she plagiarised parts of her doctoral thesis.
And this was a man whose doctoral thesis had revolved around the gastrointestinal juices of the vineyard snail.
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Germany's former defence minister "deliberately" plagiarised his doctoral thesis, a committee has found.
Li, who wrote his doctoral thesis in economics, has detailed the critical nature of building a sounder social welfare system.
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The university of Dusseldorf decided to look into Ms Schavan's 1980 doctoral thesis after an anonymous blogger raised questions about it.
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Colpan, a chemical engineer of Tatar origin, wrote his doctoral thesis on DNA cleansing at the Darmstadt Institute of Technology in 1983.
Ex-Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg resigned from his post last year after it emerged he copied large parts of his doctoral thesis.
He took time out from electioneering to complete a doctoral thesis comparing the effects of development spending on rural and urban poverty.
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Cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin famously wrote in their Stanford doctoral thesis describing Google that advertising could pollute search results.
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The two men described long processes of fabric building that made it sound like they were working on a doctoral thesis in engineering.
For his doctoral thesis, he examined intensive-care units in Maryland, and he discovered that putting an intensivist on staff reduced death rates by a third.
Another plagiarism row in 2011 led to the resignation of Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, when it emerged that large parts of his doctoral thesis were copied.
The same website exposed plagiarised passages in the doctoral thesis of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who resigned as defence minister on 1 March after being stripped of his PhD.
His doctoral thesis in 1959 inquired into the political behaviour of blacks in Chicago, finding that their subservience to white powerbrokers was a way of getting benefits for themselves.
The younger Mr. Zhu, whose Chinese given name means "cloud coming, " is also a weather expert, having written a doctoral thesis on Asia's summer monsoons at the University of Wisconsin.
He was lucky, after finishing his doctoral thesis, (on Giulio Romano, a Mannerist painter), to be invited to London to edit the papers of a great German art historian, Aby Warburg.
Toting around a computer filled with valuable data, however, is a growing risk: If the computer is lost or stolen, the user loses everything -- from a prized doctoral thesis to bank account numbers to records of passwords.
Raised on a Utah egg farm, Mr. Covey was educated at the University of Utah, Harvard University and at Brigham Young University, where his doctoral thesis concerned the history of American "success literature, " such as Benjamin Franklin's autobiography.
Last year, Brian, one of the two founders, was thirteen days away from defending his doctoral thesis in chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute, in La Jolla, when his adviser discovered that he was planning to leave academia and start a biotech company.
Through this unofficial field work, I contemplated the relationship between fashion and our ability to gain power in public, and made it the subject of both my MA thesis and my doctoral dissertation.
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