MIT study. Incident with Francis Crick Hopkins stated that when she was an undergraduate in the 1960s, Francis Crick put his hands on her breasts during a lab visit. She described the incident: "Before I could rise and shake hands, he had zoomed across the room, stood behind me, put his hands on my breasts and said, 'What are you working on?'" Incident associated with then Harvard President Lawrence Summers In January 2005, at an NBER meeting in Cambridge, MA on the topic of how to address the under-representation of women and minorities in science and engineering fields, Hopkins caused controversy by walking out in protest during a talk by then President of Harvard Lawrence Summers when he speculated that one reason for the very small number of high-achieving women in science and engineering fields might be “intrinsic aptitude” (specifically that the bell-curve of aptitude is flatter for men than women). Her action became public when she replied to an e-mail from Boston Globe reporter Marcella Bombardieri inquiring about Summers’ speech. Bombardieri's report of Summers’ speech set off a national discussion of gender discrimination, academic freedom, and human biodiversity, and contributed to Summers’ resignation as the President of Harvard. Honors Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Member of the National Academy of Sciences MD Anderson Cancer Center, Margaret L. Kripke Legend Award (2012) Awarded an honorary doctorate by Trinity College Dublin (2014) Alice C. Evans Award, American Society for Microbiology (2015) Helen Dean King Award (2017) Personal life Hopkins has been married to J. Dinsmore Adams Jr.(known as Dinny) since 2007. References External links Inaugural article for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) FNL article known as "The MIT Report on Women in Science" FNL article on Lawrenc Summers speech and the hiring of women faculty at MIT National Academy of Sciences report reviewing research on cognitive abilities of women vs men and on gender bias; Hyde and Mertz’ article on women and mathematical ability "The Reluctant Feminist," The New York Times Cold Spring Harbor oral history Living people Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty 21st-century American biologists American geneticists Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences American women biologists Radcliffe College alumni 1943 births American women academics Members of the National Academy of Medicine 21st-century American women scientists