U.S. Gov’t Physicist Sentenced to 18 months in Prison for Fraud

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U.S. Gov’t Physicist Sentenced to 18 months in Prison for Fraud

What is this about?

This is an article about physicist Sean Darin Kinion who was working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He faked data and reports in quantum computing research. In 2016 Kinion was sentenced to 18 months in prison for faking data and ordered to pay back the funding.

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Who

• Sean Darin Kinion

When

• 2016

Where

• United States
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Virtues & Values

• Honesty
• Reliability
• Reproducibility

Good Practices & Misconduct

• Fabrication
• Fraud
• Computer Science
• Faked Data
• Legal Threats
• Misconduct Investigations
• Physics Retractions

Research Area

• Computer and Information Sciences