ExxonMobil, others disown Emeagwali
The bottom has fallen out of Phillip Emeagwali’s basket of false
claims. American oil giant, ExxonMobil, has told NEXT exclusively that it has
never dealt with the American-based Nigerian scientist, contrary to Mr.
Emeagwali’s repeated claim that he wrote the equations that the company used to
simulate the flow of oil, water, and gas inside its reservoirs.
Authorities at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a United
States Department of Energy laboratory, where Mr. Emeagwali claimed he sourced
the Connection Machine for his award-winning experiment, also said they had
never related with the Nigerian scientist.
Even the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the
world’s largest organisation of computer experts, has reacted to the scandal
surrounding Mr Emeagwali by removing the scientist’s profile from its website.
Mr. Emeagwali’s bio on the site contained some contentious claims, including
one that he has a doctorate.
Read the complete
story in this week’s edition of NEXT on Sunday.
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