Stewart Nozette
Stewart David Nozette ( born May 20, 1957 in Chicago) is in American scientist and astronomer. He worked for the United States Department of Energy, the United States Department of Defense and NASA. The results of his research he published in the journal Science. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested him on 19 October 2009 on suspicion of espionage after a planned operation to its transfer. He was accused of passing secret information on payment to someone who identified himself as a member of the Israeli secret service Mossad, but a member of the FBI was.
Life and education
He grew up near West Rogers Park in Chicago. He received his Bachelor of Science ( BS) in Geosciences at the University of Arizona in 1979. In 1983 he received a PhD degree Ph.D. in astronomy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1990 to 2007, he donated the Republican Party for their committee or candidate more than 36 000 U.S. dollars.
Career
In the course of his professional activities, he acquired the permission to work in areas with high secrecy in the nuclear and satellite programs of the United States. He possessed the level of secrecy top secret and the security level Q clearance, which he has been involved in special work programs with
From 1983 to 1984 he was Director of the California Space Institute concomitant, the Scripps Institute of Oceanography was affiliated to the University of California, San Diego. He then moved to Austin.
When NASA him arrived experiments which led to the discovery of deposits of water on the south pole of the moon. With its security level he carried out investigations on nuclear materials used bim U.S. Department of Energy. In the tenure of U.S. President George HW Bush, he belonged to the National Space Council. From 1989 to 2006 he owned the security level to view documents of the national security of the United States. The administration of the U.S. government, he left in 2006.
After that he went to India and worked at the moon, Chandrayaan -1 project with. He carried out investigations on the Mini -RF Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Espionage and arrest
The FBI, he was suspiciously like a strange abroad. In September 2009 he received phone calls from a person who identified herself as a member of the Israeli secret service Mossad. After a contact with a person, but belonged to the FBI, he declared himself ready to deliver for cash payments secret information. He called for 10 000 U.S. dollars so he reported this contact the security organs of the USA .. His first payment he received after he had passed information about the U.S. satellite technology. Furthermore, he was prepared to provide information on nuclear weapons, spacecraft, satellites, and major weapons systems. In a mailbox that served the Handed such information, documents from these areas could be ensured. The Ministry of Justice of the United States made any allegations against the government of Israel or against anyone, to have committed violations of the laws of the United States in this matter.
With regard to the indictment, under which he stood, he established his espionage Contact the fact that his parents are Jews. He laid claim to return under the legal system of Israel. Furthermore, he applied for an Israeli passport. At a hearing in federal court against late October 2009, an arrest bail was rejected as a flight risk would exist.
Selected Publications
- G. H. Pettengill: Venus: Global Surface Radar Reflectivity. 217, 1982, p 640-642.
- Stewart Nozette: The Clementine mission to the Moon. 266, 16 December 1994, pp. 1835-1839. doi: 10.1126/science.266.5192.1835.
- Stewart Nozette: Venus: Chemical Weathering of Igneous Rocks and Buffering of Atmospheric Composition. 216, 9 April 1982 pp. 181-183. doi: 10.1126/science.216.4542.181.
- S. Nozette: Super Heavy Elements: An Early Solar System Upper limit for element 107 to 110 214, 16 October 1981, p 331-333. doi: 10.1126/science.214.4518.331.