When having it all is never enough:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M._Lieber
Federal arrest[edit]
On January 28, 2020, Lieber was charged with two federal counts of making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement about his links to a Chinese university. According to the Department of Justice’s charging document[82], there are two counts of alleged crime committed by Lieber. First, during an interview by DoD on April 24, 2018, Lieber was asked whether he was involved in the Thousand Talents Program. Lieber stated that “he was never asked to participate in the Thousand Talents Program”, adding that “he ‘wasn’t sure’ how China categorized him.” The DOJ believes that Lieber’s statement was false, because an intercepted email dated June 27, 2012, from Wuhan University of Technology (”WUT”) included a contract for Lieber to sign. Second, in November 2018, the NIH inquired of Harvard University about Lieber’s foreign affiliations. In January 2019, Harvard interviewed Lieber and reported to NIH that Lieber “had no formal association with WUT” after 2012. The DOJ believes Lieber’s statement was false. Lieber was charged with two counts of violating 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2), one on April 24, 2018, and one in January 2019 for making the allegedly false statements.
During his arraignment, authorities executed search warrants at his home and office in Lexington, Massachusetts. Lieber has been placed on paid administrative leave by Harvard.[83]
On June 9, 2020, the Department of Justice, Indicted on False Statement Charges. Alleged that, unbeknownst to Harvard University, beginning in 2011, Lieber became a “Strategic Scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China. He later became contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from at least 2012 through 2015. [84]
Personal life[edit]
Lieber is Jewish.[8...
Born
1959 (age 60–61)[1]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[1]
Citizenship
United States
Alma mater
Franklin & Marshall College
Stanford University
Known for
Nanomaterials synthesis and assembly
Nanostructure characterization
Nanoelectronics and nanophotonics
Nanobioelectronics
Awards
Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2012)
MRS Von Hippel Award (2016)
NAS (2004)
Scientific career
Fields
Nanoscience and nanotechnology
Chemistry
Materials physics
Neuroscience
Institutions
Harvard University
Columbia University
Wuhan University of Technology
I wonder whether Lieber’s immediate ancestry is Russian or German, like so many other unAmerican Jews.
You will likely find this tree of Leiber’s students interesting in the number of Asian students he has educated.
Chemistry Tree:
https://academictree.org/chemistry/tree.php?pid=52856
Also you may find this of interest, likely the real rub behind Leiber’s being prosecuted because of its strategic military applications for batteries and direct computer interfacing with the human body:
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Why did a Chinese university hire Charles Lieber to do battery research?
” An affidavit outlining the charges against Lieber notes that in January 2013, he signed an agreement between Harvard and Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China. According to the affidavit, “The stated purpose of the agreement, which had a five-year effective term, was to ‘carry out advanced research and development of nanowire-based lithium ion batteries with high performance for electric vehicles.”
And:
“.....More recently, Lieber’s Harvard lab has shifted gears to integrate nanowires with biology. In 2017, for example, he reported creating soft, flexible 3D nanowire mesh that could be injected into the brains or retina of animals, unfurl and wrap around neurons, and eavesdrop on the electrical communication between cells.”