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Hundreds of physicists condemn sexist talk at CERN on women in physics

By Leah Crane

5 October 2018

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Particle physicists are not happy with Alessandro Strumia. Last week, the particle physicist gave a talk at CERN claiming that men are innately better at physics research than women. Now, the high-energy physics community is pushing back.

The presentation, in which Strumia claimed that the reason there are more male physicists than female is because the men are 鈥渙ver-performing鈥, and that physics was 鈥渋nvented and built by men鈥, faced widespread and immediate backlash.

Many of Strumia鈥檚 colleagues, along with others both inside and beyond the field of physics, called the…

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