LONDON: Nobel laureate Sir Tim Hunt has resigned from his position as honorary professor at a UK university over his much criticised “trouble with girls” comments.
University College London (UCL) said Sir Tim Hunt – a Royal Society fellow – had resigned from his position within its faculty of life sciences.
Hunt said that the trouble with “girls” is that they cause men to fall in love with them and cry when criticised.
He said “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls … three things happen when they are in the lab … You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticise them, they cry.”
Hunt said he was in favour of separate gender labs, adding that he didn’t want to “stand in the way of women”.
The 72-year-old, who won the 2001 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine, made the remarks when addressing a convention of senior female scientists and science journalists.
