Apparently you can get a legitimate Nobel Prize (not peace or economy) and not get cut any slack for going against Tumblr-style political correctness.
Were this guy’s comments appropriate? Doesn’t look like it.
What’s a reasonable consequence for this? A talking-to from whoever runs the lab, or from the PR person.
Now the world is poorer of the time it will take for this very skilled person to find a new place to work in and get settled in.
Scary.
Related: http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid
He is 72 and semi-retired, so this all is mainly an insult to him.
If it was me in his shoes I would take the Nobel prize medal and nail it to the main doors of UC London.