Professor Will-staetter, famous German chemist who won the Noble Prize for his scientific research work, resigned today from his post at the University of Munich as a protest against the anti-Semitic action of the University Board. The Board had declined to accept two Jewish professors under the pretext that they were “foreigners”.
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