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   (CNN)The scientist and Nobel laureate who sparked criticism   
   after saying women in laboratories "fall in love with you and   
   when you criticize them, they cry" has resigned from his   
   position at a UK university.   
      
   In a brief statement on its website, University College London   
   (UCL) said that Tim Hunt had resigned from his position as   
   Honorary Professor with the university's Faculty of Life   
   Sciences "following comments he made about women in science."   
      
   "UCL was the first university in England to admit women students   
   on equal terms to men, and the university believes that this   
   outcome is compatible with our commitment to gender equality,"   
   the statement added.   
      
   Swift condemnation   
   Hunt made his inflammatory remarks at the World Conference of   
   Science Journalists in South Korea. They were made public by a   
   tweet from Connie St. Louis, director of the MA Science   
   Journalism program at London's City University, who was also   
   present at the meeting.   
      
   The scientist was swiftly condemned for his comments, with   
   #TimHunt trending on Twitter. Although he later apologized in an   
   interview with the BBC for any offense his comments had caused,   
   Hunt said that he stood by them.   
      
   "I did mean the part about having trouble with girls. It is true   
   that people -- I have fallen in love with people in the lab and   
   people in the lab have fallen in love with me and it's very   
   disruptive to the science because it's terribly important that   
   in a lab people are on a level playing field," he said. "I found   
   that these emotional entanglements made life very difficult.   
      
   "I'm really, really sorry I caused any offense, that's awful. I   
   certainly didn't mean that. I just meant to be honest,   
   actually," he added.   
      
   Reaction to his resignation on social media was mixed. Many   
   people praised UCL for standing by its principles, however some   
   questioned whether the outcome was a curb on free speech.   
      
   "Seems London's Professors are not allowed free speech at UCL as   
   #TimHunt resigns. It's all @uclnews to me," tweeted Barbara   
   Cookson, a European patent lawyer and IP expert.   
      
   Beth Hellen, an evolutionary computational geneticist from the   
   University of Sheffield, tweeted "People can now say he was   
   outlier & issue has been fixed, when it really hasn't."   
      
   St. Louis -- who shared the original comments on Twitter --   
   herself argued that real action to strike a gender balance is   
   yet to be taken. "I think now, we have to stop talking about it.   
      
   The Royal Society has been talking about this for a lot of   
   years. I remember as a young undergrad scientist, going there,   
   saying to somebody, why are there all these white men on the   
   walls? And they said, 'Oh, yes, we're on that, we're on it!'"   
   she recalled to CNN.   
      
   "That's quite a few years ago. And somehow, they think it's okay   
   to progress at that pace, and it's not. It really is not."   
      
   Hunt was part of the team that won the Nobel Prize in physiology   
   in 2001 for the discovery of key regulators of the cell cycle.   
      
   http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/11/europe/hunt-women-scientists/   
       
      
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