Now that Charles Lieber has been arrested, everyone has questions about his involvement in China's Thousand Talents Program — perhaps no one more than Lieber himself.
Illustration by Luis Grañena
On an April evening last year, a group of chemists from around the world gathered for dinner at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Mass. They had been beckoned by the Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, which was hosting a special one-day event called the CML Symposium. The title was an homage to the man being honored: Charles M. Lieber, the chair of the department, a celebrated mentor, and a giant in the field of nanotechnology.
The occasion was Lieber’s 60t
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