The British scientist Tim Hunt, winner of a Nobel Prize, apologized on Wednesday (10) to have said that “problems with girls” who work in laboratories is that this leads to romantic involvements and undermines science .
But Hunt maintained its assertion that laboratories with men and women are “disturbing”.
The scientist, 72, made the comments during a World Science Journalists Conference in South Korea, according to audience members.
Connie St. Louis, from London’s City University, posted on Twitter that Hunt said that when women work with men in laboratories, “you fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you have criticism, they cry. “
Hunt, a biochemist who received the Nobel partnership in 2001 for physiology or medicine, said he was just trying to be funny. He told BBC radio on Wednesday that he was “really, really sorry for having offended someone”
He then added:. “I really meant it about the part of having trouble with girls … I fell in love by people in the lab and the lab people fell in love with me and that’s very disturbing to science. “
Jennifer Rohn, a cell biologist at University College London, said the comments must have been made as a joke, but “that’s no excuse.”
She said such comments made by a leading scientist “will be taken seriously by some young scientists. And I think that’s a real shame because we still have a long way to go to achieve equality in science. “
Hunt is a member of the Royal Society, one of the leading bodies of British science, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2006.
The Royal Society says not share the view of Hunt. In a statement, the company says that “many talented individuals not fully reach their potential for scientific issues such as gender, and the company is committed to help fix it.”
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