Nobel laureate speaks of experiencing ‘male discrimination’ at annual Lindau meeting

Swiss Nobel laureate, Kurt Wüthrich, has been challenged over claims that he had experienced ‘male discrimination’ at the annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

During his five-minute address to delegates on the future of structural biology, the topic of the meeting, Wüthrich drew attention to a newspaper interview with Germany’s only female Nobel laureate, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. The article featured the headline ‘One should be careful otherwise there will be discrimination against men’ .