Chronos said:
Interesting. El Naschie has co-authored one paper in arxix. A second paper was withdrawn. Both note a revision where "The incorrect affiliation of M. S. El Naschie was removed". It turns out El Naschie had illicitly claimed affiliation with DAMTP (Cambridge), a quite serious transgression in academic circles. Further compounding matters. His co-author, Carlos Castro, who is quite the controversial character [he and Tony Smith are apparently pals], has not been published in arxix since then and asserts he has been blacklisted. I might add that El Naschie's preferred publication source appears to be 'the Journal of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals', of which he is Chief Editor. Anyways, this is the story as related by Mr. Castro. I certainly wouldn't leap to any conclusions on that basis, I merely thought it might be of interest.
The man returned home. He is an Emeritus Prof. at the Astrophysics Dept. of Fac. of Science, Cairo Univ. a year or so ago among other positions, as this interview
http://www.esi-topics.com/erf/2004/october04-MohamedElNaschie.html introduces him:
Authors: El Naschie, MS
Journal: CHAOS SOLITON FRACTAL, 19: (1) 209-236, JAN 2004
Addresses:
POB 272, Surrey, England.
Univ Brussels, Solvay Inst, Brussels, Belgium.
Cairo Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Astrophys, Cairo, Egypt.
Univ Surrey, Dept Math, Sch Elect & Comp Sci, Guildford GU2 5XH, Surrey, England.
And if you follow the story elsewhere http://www.archivefreedom.org/freedom/Cyberia.pdf (or through Google
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:...om/Cyberia.pdf+El+Naschie+Carlos+Castro&hl=en) other than arxix (actually it is some related http site to the original
http://arxiv.org) you may notice that Dr. Carlos Castro has a struggle with arxiv.org because of their check policy not with El Naschie himself who has the right for privacy and the choice of where he should be cited (paper-wise and human-wise.)
This is to whom it may concern and not clear the name of Prof. El Naschie of nothing he done.
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