The U.S. Government’s China Crackdown Comes to Harvard
Leading nanoscientist Charles Lieber is charged with lying about his work with the Thousand Talents program in a widening crackdown on dealings with Beijing.
Charles Lieber leaves federal court in Boston on Jan. 30, after he was charged with lying about alleged links to the Chinese government.
Photographer: Katherine Taylor/Reuters
On Feb. 6, Charles Lieber was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, making the Harvard nanoscientist just the 30th person in history to achieve the hallowed hat trick at the apex of American science: membership in all three National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
A week earlier, however, he was ushered into a different federal institution in downtown Boston, in handcuffs and an orange jailhouse jumpsuit. He left the federal courthouse after posting $1 million in bail.