Who Does This Describe?

[ham]

He signed off on his dissertation as the sole author, but now admits that in reality his effort was but 6.25% of a project in which he "collaborated" with 15 others.

ah...and that was 'customary', thus 'legal'...'hey, but that's legal!'
Who said that already?

let's ask mr. professor why the nobel prize(s) for the discovery of neutrinos [1988, 2002, 1995 ] and their properties were awarded to a handful of people and not to three football teams.
After all, if so many people are required (that is 'how it's done' after all, according to him ), and all are equally contributing, they all should be awarded the prize.
The problem it's like in the movies...Marlon Brando gets the oscar, while Sam Zero is simply billed as 'drunkard n.3'.
Sure, both Marlon Brando and Sam Zero 'star' in the same movie and both can be construed (with good will ) as being part of the 'success' that the movie generated...they are a team, comprising electricians, make-up artists, decor artists, stunts...that awesome acrobatic scene wouldn't be on film without that skilled stuntman...blahblah.
Look at scholar.google.com and see whether Albert Einstein and Edwin Hubble published within a retinue of 27 names.
Ah, maybe that was because they published before the 1970s...
Or because Hubble and Einstein know nothing about physics (Hubble for example first measured -however inaccurately- the distance between galaxies and argued that the universe was expanding, while Einstein thought it was static).
But don't let this bother you professor doctor...people here are clueless idiots, while you have the qualified support of Thomas Chip White, Gus Sainz, Gregg DesElms, uncle Janko, John Bear, George Brown etc...hell...the Nobel prize committee looks like a 'alcol-anon' reunion compared to the first-class 'specialists' you hang out with.