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Jehane Noureldin Ragai (Arabic: جيهان نور الدين رجائي) (born in Cairo, Egypt) is an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the American University in Cairo (AUC). She is the author of the two editions of The Scientist and the Forger.

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Authenticity is important on many fronts. Forged works in the arts provide a distorted art-historical understanding of the artist’s oeuvre.

If it is revealed as a forgery, it loses its hold on the viewer. Societal pressures, as well as snobbery, also play a role with regard to the importance of authenticity.

For a robust profile of an artwork (I am concentrating here on paintings), there needs to be an input from the expert connoisseur, the art historian, as well as the scientist.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jehane Ragai (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.