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The result was delete. Cirt (talk) 02:30, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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dismally fails WP:BIO and WP:PROF, nothing in gnews, only 2 hits in gscholar [1] LibStar (talk) 06:21, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. There's nothing out there that suggests he has made a significant impact in his scholarly discipline. Being the Chair of the local branch of an academic society is hardly notable per WP:PROF. Nor is being member of the court of a University where the court has over 150 members: [2] --Mkativerata (talk) 07:15, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per above.--MacRusgail (talk) 16:04, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:30, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. The FRSC suggests that he may pass WP:PROF #3, but I'd be a lot more comfortable about making that argument if I could discern just what contributions to chemistry might have earned him that title. His Google scholar citation record has very little, but maybe there are better databases for this subject? —David Eppstein (talk) 07:46, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. [|This] does not help much. FRSC does not look enough for notability on its own. Xxanthippe (talk) 09:48, 11 December 2009 (UTC).[reply]
• Delete per nom -- not notable. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 12:08, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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