An academic who died over 50 years ago still has Google Scholar profile with verified email. How can this be? I'm surprised to see that an academic who died over 50 years ago has a Google Scholar profile with a verified email (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&amp;user=5qvdHjQAAAAJ):



How is that possible? I see the email domain, melipona.org, is some online shop.
Verified email just mean that the user has done the confirmation in his/her inbox. It means in that case that the person that created this profile has an email with the domain "@melipona.org".

Usually, people will do this verification with their institutional email, adding credence that this is the right person, but technically, anyone within an institution can do it for anyone else inside that particular institution.