Word: gillberg
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...troubles began in November, when Bjorn Gillberg, a former professor at Sweden's Ultuna Agricultural University, read a FORTUNE profile of Fermenta. The story noted that el Sayed had earned a Ph.D. in microbiology at Uppsala University in 1973. In reality, el Sayed had been at Ultuna that year, working in Gillberg's lab. Gillberg investigated the discrepancy and discovered that el Sayed had also falsely claimed to have a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of California, Davis...
Three weeks ago Gillberg publicly charged el Sayed with lying about his credentials, and a national furor erupted. HE LIED read a banner headline in Expressen, a Stockholm tabloid. Afraid that his new notoriety would hurt Fermenta, el Sayed agreed to give up day-to-day management of the company. But he is hardly ruined: his 43% share of Fermenta's stock is still worth nearly $350 million...