Austria’s prestigious Salzburg University has posthumously revoked the honorary doctorate of Nobel-winning ethnologist and zoologist Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989) because of his Nazi past.The university cited the Austrian’s 1938 application to join the Nazi party in which he says that he had “of course always been a National Socialist as a scientist” and that “my life’s work… has been in the service of…
Source: Nobel’s doctorate revoked for Nazi past | HumansinShadow.wordpress.com
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Sounds fair enough. Though you think they might have researched him better, before honouring him in the first place.
Best wishes, Pete.
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You’d think.
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