An Indian scientist from Auburn University in Alabama, USA, has alleged flaws in the selection of winners of world famous Nobel Prize for the year 2000. According to a PTI report, Professor Mrinal Thakur, Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department of Auburn University, claimed that his work had been sidelined while three others were selected for the prestigious award.
Professor Thakur was nominated for Nobel Prize for the third time by his university this year.
Speaking to reporters in Mumbai on July 4, Thakur claimed that his discovery of 'non-conjugated' conductive polymers - having isolated double bonds as far back as 1988 - had proved Nobel Foundation's statements incorrect in the selection of Nobel awards for the year 2000.
He has questioned the decision of Stockholm-based Nobel Foundation of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to assume that a polymer had to be conjugated to become electrically conductive-- the basis for Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000 to three scientists.
Alleging flaws in the selection of the Nobel winners of 2000, Thakur said that in spite of having scientific facts on record that "conjugation is not a pre-requisite for a polymer to be conductive but must have at least one double bond in the repeat", the Nobel foundation has ignored it.
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