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British College Loses $1.5 Million Donation over Ousting of Nobel Prize Winner Tim Hunt

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The controversy was that Hunt, a Nobel laureate, made a sexist joke and it offended the audience he was speaking to. Social media outraged pushed the University College London to pressure Hunt to resign, even though it was a simple joke and the audience laughed at it.

Now the college lost a $1.5 million donation.

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