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Jeffrey Epstein maintained a long-term financial and professional relationship with Seth Lloyd, providing him with significant personal and research funding as detailed in [1], [2], and [3]. This association led to academic scrutiny and disciplinary action against Lloyd by MIT, as described in [4], and involved various collaborative proposals and acknowledgments between the two as noted in [5], [6], and [7].
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Epstein files show a complicated relationship with science and ... scientificamerican.com 5 facts
claimScientific American never published the article about Seth Lloyd's quantum computing work that was proposed in a 2014 message to Jeffrey Epstein.
quoteSeth Lloyd stated that Jeffrey Epstein did support some good science, describing it as perhaps the only good thing Epstein did.
claimMIT placed Seth Lloyd on administrative leave in 2020 and imposed a five-year period of restrictions on him because he had accepted donations and personal financing from Jeffrey Epstein.
quoteSeth Lloyd stated that if Jeffrey Epstein submitted an article to Scientific American in 2014 with him as a co-author, Epstein never informed him about it.
claimA redacted 2014 message sent to Jeffrey Epstein mentioned drafting an article for Scientific American about Seth Lloyd's work on quantum computing at MIT, which would be published with Jeffrey Epstein's name in the title.
Desperately seeking donors: Lessons from the Epstein case universityworldnews.com 4 facts
accountIn 2012, Jeffrey Epstein wrote to MIT physicist Seth Lloyd, whom he had known since 2004, proposing to give him two $50,000 tranches to test the acceptability of gifts from a convicted sexual offender at MIT.
measurementJeffrey Epstein developed close links with MIT physicist Seth Lloyd and provided him with US$100,000 for research in 2012.
claimAn MIT report noted that physicist Seth Lloyd acknowledged Jeffrey Epstein in his academic publications.
measurementIn 2017, Jeffrey Epstein provided US$125,000 to MIT physicist Seth Lloyd to cover his sabbatical, with the funds transferred through Epstein's philanthropic foundation, Gratitude America.
Why did Jeffrey Epstein cultivate famous scientists? scientificamerican.com 1 fact
measurementJeffrey Epstein donated $525,000 to the MIT Media Lab and $225,000 to mechanical engineering professor Seth Lloyd after his 2008 conviction, with both gifts handled outside normal channels.