Scientist ‘hung out to dry’ over remarks

A Nobel laureate who resigned from University College London after making comments about the ”trouble with girls” in science has said he was the victim of an “enormous rush to judgment”.

Tim Hunt, who was awarded the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 2001, reportedly told a conference in South Korea: “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.”