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Nature 414, 239 (15 November 2001) | doi:10.1038/35104765

French Nobel protest makes chemist a cause célèbre

Sally Goodman

France's science minister has written to the director of the Nobel Foundation, Michael Sohlman, protesting that French chemist Henri Kagan of Paris-Sud University was not given a share of this year's chemistry prize.The unusual move by the minister, Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg, comes after several French scientists voiced their dismay that Kagan missed out.