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professor! I published a fucking thesis that summarized the composition of all matter through the Big Bang!
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Oh, my little graduate student, what a wonderful achievement.
Have you decided on a title for your paper?
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It was beautifully named The Origin of Chemical Elements!
My name will be at the front, and my advisor’s name will be at the end!
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Wait, how could you do this?
Are you going to decide on a list of authors without consulting me?
(Oh the fuck, is my thesis published under the professor’s name? Will my thesis be stolen?)
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Hello, I am a scholar passing by.
The professor asked me to be a co-author.
You didn’t do anything with this study, right? But why…
This is my big picture, so how am I going to go into labor? Just keep quiet and borrow this person’s name!
(What a fucking professor)
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This graduate student’s name is Ralph Alper.
The name of the professor who instructed me to spoon-feed my student’s thesis was George Gamov.
The name of the scholar on whom the spoon was placed without knowing the meaning was Hans Bete.
Although Hans Bethe was a scholar in this field,
It is true that Professor Gamov was brought in for a drip called the Alpha-Beta-Gamma paper.
Poor Alper had the author of the paper intercepted.
Even now, it is called the ABC Paper and has become an iconic paper, leaving its name in history.