The Chronicle News Blog: Nobel Laureate Follows Apologies for Racial Comments With Resignation From Lab
James D. Watson, who shared a Nobel Prize for helping decipher the structure of DNA, resigned this morning as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and from his position on the New York institution’s board, on which he had served for more than four decades. The resignation followed an uproar stemming from an interview, published last week, in which Mr. Watson declared that Africans were intellectually inferior to Europeans.
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