Crick's Nobel Prize medal sold for $2 million; will boost science in China
Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 12:31
in Mathematics & Economics
The Nobel Prize medal that Francis Crick won for his role in a historic DNA discovery was sold Thursday for more than $2 million to a Shanghai biotech executive who plans to use it to promote science in China, the auction house behind the sale said.The buying spree at Heritage Auctions in New York follows Wednesday's record-setting $6 million sale of a letter that Crick wrote to his son in 1953, i...