Top Harvard chemist charged with lying about ties to Chinese government program
The arrest of Harvard's Charles Lieber is an escalation of a U.S. crackdown on a perceived Chinese campaign to steal ideas born in American universities and medical centers.
The head of Harvard University’s chemistry department was charged on Tuesday with attempting to conceal his involvement in a Chinese government program to bring scientists to China, an escalation of a crackdown by U.S. authorities on what they perceive as a campaign to steal ideas born in American universities and medical centers.
In a unsealed on Tuesday, Charles Lieber — a leading nanoelectronics researcher
