Dozens of Nobel Prize winners are urging the US Senate to oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services, according to a letter dated Monday and published by the New York Times.

Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.

Dozens of Nobel Prize laureates have penned an open letter to the U.S. Senate, urging lawmakers in that congressional body to reject president-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).