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2021-05-05

Canceled Nobel Prize winners

Some people are pushing yet another PC lie, 
namely, that only dumb or ignorant people have politically incorrect opinions.

If/when you hear that, think of these Nobel-Prize-winning counterexamples:

Robert Millikan (1923, Physics; first president of Caltech; supporter of eugenics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Andrews_Millikan

For an example of the argument for removing Millikan's name from its formerly-honored position at Caltech, 
see this letter from Sophia Charan:
https://caltechletters.org/viewpoints/rename-millikan

For a more positive view of Millikan, see
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1923/millikan/biographical/


William Shockley (1956, Physics; supporter of eugenics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley


James Watson (1962, Physiology or Medicine; director, president, and chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; expressed belief that genetics is a factor in behavior (note: merely a factor))
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson