US scientist jailed for sharing sensitive data

摘要

A former University of Tennessee professor has been sentenced to four years in prison for sharing sensitive technologies with his Chinese and Iranian graduate students. J. Reece Roth, an emeritus professorrnof electrical engineering, was sentenced on 1 July by a Tennessee district court for violating the Arms Export Control Act. He had been developing ways to reduce the drag on unmanned planes, and employed two research assistants without obtaining the required licence (see Nature 442,232-233; 2006). Roth plans to appeal the verdict.