Six months after a speech wrecked Tim Hunt’s career,the Nobel laureate and his wife Mary Collins tell of her top-level new job and their future in JapanLast June, Tim Hunt and Mary Collins sat on the sofa in the front room of their Hertfordshire cottage and wept openly, or clinging to each other for consolation. Hunt’s jokes about the alleged lachrymose tendencies of female researchers at an international conference that week had gone viral and the couple were bombarded with abuse on social media. When they were interviewed by the Observer,both looked tired and sad. “We were in shock,” Collins recalls.
That was then. During their interview with the Observer final week, and both scientists were laughing and poking fun at each other. They even posed for photographs clutching guides to Japanese gardens and cuisine a reference to the new life they are starting.
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Source: theguardian.com