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segunda-feira, 22 de junho de 2015

The fall of Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt


LONDON — A week ago, Tim Hunt was a obvious Nobel Prize leader who was compelling scholarship preparation around Europe and a world.


Today he’s widely viewed as a sexist who has been nude of many of his positions given of inapt comments about women in science.


Gone is his position with a European Research Council scholarship committee, his purpose during a Royal Society, and his titular post during University College London. He pronounced Sunday he was dismissed from a latter, while a university has pronounced usually that his abdication was accepted.


Hunt’s tumble followed a debate Tuesday during a World Conference of Science Journalists in South Korea in that he pronounced that girls means difficulty in labs given “you tumble in adore with them, they tumble in adore with you, and when we impugn them, they cry.”


The comments caused an present Twitter charge that fast led to Hunt, 72, withdrawal his posts even as he apologized. He has pronounced he had been perplexing to make a joke, though though stood by his criticism that adore affairs in a lab are disruptive to science.


He was vilified by many, including The Guardian’s Anne Perkins, who wrote that his comments were “the prepared man’s version” of blaming rape victims given they were wearing brief skirts before they were attacked.


Hunt, 72, laments that his loving career is finished — and some distinguished women scientists who suspicion his remarks were deeply descent pronounced Sunday a punishment might be too harsh.


Athene Donald, a heading physicist who is master of Churchill College during Cambridge University, pronounced Hunt always enthusiastically upheld her work when she served for 5 years as Gender Equality Champion during a university.


“I’ve spent a lot of time with him and I’ve never seen any pointer of sexism,” she told The Associated Press. “He has trafficked a universe given he got a Nobel Prize, articulate to immature audiences, masculine and female, giving so generously, and now he has been ruined.”


Hunt won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001 and after was done a knight.


Donald pronounced his comments were “indefensible” though there have been no cases of women entrance brazen to contend they were feeble treated by Hunt, or discriminated opposite in any way.


Ottoline Leyser, a former tyro of Hunt’s who now leads a Sainsbury Laboratory during a University of Cambridge, pronounced she was dissapoint that Hunt’s descent comments could have a disastrous impact on immature women deliberation a career in scholarship though that his record is differently unblemished.


“All my interactions with him were really positive,” she told a AP. “He was a really eager and inspirational teacher. I’ve no indications from my knowledge or from colleagues that he’s in a smallest approach sexist.”


She pronounced a speed with that news of his comments widespread around amicable media has reinforced for many scientists a dangers of vocalization to a press or to a public.


“We’re all of us terrified,” she said. “In this media age, when sound bites widespread so quickly, an off-the-cuff acknowledgement after a lunch in some discussion can unexpected outcome in a deadly drop of your career.”




The fall of Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt

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