London University professor, and Nobel Laureate Tim Hunt has quit his job following a furore spurred by his discriminatory remarks about women colleagues. Hunt, 72, faced the ire after he said that women colleagues should be assigned separate laboratories.
Hunt was addressing a conference in Seoul on Monday where he said that he faces “trouble with girls”. He continued to say what his problems were:
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.
— Tim Hunt, Professor of Physiology, London University
At the conference, Hunt also said that he has a bad bad reputation for being a chauvinist. The 2001 Nobel Prize winner later apologised for his remarks and clarified that he made the said remarks on a light note.
(With inputs from Reuters)
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