Francis Crick's DNA letter to his son sells at auction for a record $6 million
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 16:31
in Mathematics & Economics
A 60-year-old letter in which biologist Francis Crick told his son about DNA's double-helix structure, weeks before the Nobel Prize-winning discovery was revealed to the world, sold at a New York auction on Wednesday for a record price of $6 million.The $6,059,750 sale price represents the highest amount ever paid for a letter, said Elizabeth Van Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Christie's auction ho...