"A highly regarded theoretical physicist is stepping away from the Ontario institute he helped found, after his ties to the late American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were revealed in recently released files. Lee Smolin, an American Canadian professor of physics and philosophy, has "agreed to pause his working relationship" with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ont., according to an email on Thursday from Perimeter's executive director, Marcela Carena."
"The files show that Smolin continued to correspond with Epstein, and the two made repeated efforts to talk by phone and meet up, until at least 2013 five years after the latter pleaded guilty in Florida to state charges of soliciting prostitution from a minor and another criminal count. The paper trail appears to contradict Smolin's own account of his relationship with Epstein."
Lee Smolin is an American Canadian professor of physics and philosophy and a founding faculty member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo. Smolin has agreed to pause his working relationship with the Perimeter Institute after correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein appeared in newly released U.S. Department of Justice files. Smolin worked at Perimeter part time and holds academic appointments at the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto. The files show Smolin continued to correspond with Epstein and made repeated efforts to speak and meet until at least 2013, five years after Epstein's 2008 conviction in Florida. No evidence of illegal activity by Smolin has been presented.
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