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Ex-Harvard Chemist Gets No Jail Time for Hiding China Work
- Judge orders Lieber to serve six months of home confinement
- Scientist convicted of lying about China recruitment, income
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Former Harvard University chemist Charles Lieber was ordered to serve six months of home confinement — avoiding jail time — for lying to US authorities about his role in a Chinese government program to recruit scientists and develop research.
US District Judge Rya Zobel sentenced Lieber Wednesday in Boston, where the onetime chair of Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department was convicted by a jury in December 2021. Lieber, 64, is a leader in the field of nanoscience and has since retired after three decades at the school.