Being a 72-year-old with bad teeth and prominent nose hairs didn't stop Nobel laureate Tim Hunt from being an irresistible babe magnet.
So much so that it interfered with his work in biochemistry. Luckily, the Guardian reports, he won't have that problem any more.
A Nobel laureate who said that scientists should work in gender-segregated labs and that the trouble with “girls” is that they cause men to fall in love with them has resigned from his position at University College London (UCL).
Tim Hunt, an English biochemist who admitted that he had a reputation for being a “chauvinist”, had made the comments at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Seoul, South Korea, where 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.”
In a statement published on its website UCL said that it could confirm that Hunt had resigned on Wednesday from his position as honorary professor with the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences, “following comments he made about women in science at the World Conference of Science Journalists on 9 June”.
Unfortunately for him, there was a "girl" in the audience who took offense at his remarks and published them, under the memorable headline "Why are the British so embarrassing abroad?"
Well done, Connie St Louis, who directs the science journalism program at City University, London.
And if you are a fan of cockney rhyming slang...seriously, its so Ham and Cheesy I don't Adam and Eve it.