Mrinal Thakur is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Auburn University in Alabama, USA.
He holds a series of patents on electrically conductive polymers.
[1] Thakur claims that the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry to Alan J. Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa was awarded for a scientific result he disproved in 1988: that only conjugated polymers could conduct electricity.
[2] Thakur was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002.
and Ph.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University and a BS in Physics from Visva-Bharati University.