A top University of California, Berkeley physicist resigned, saying the school discriminates against scientists who do not hold certain political views.

David Romps, director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center, resigned from his role at the university after Berkeley refused his request to invite Dorian Abbot, a professor at the University of Chicago whose lecture at MIT was canceled due to his political views, to speak on campus.

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