Watson’s Nobel Prize Medal for Decoding DNA Fetches $4.1 Million at Auction

Thursday, December 4, 2014 - 22:50 in Biology & Nature

For Dr. Watson, a co-winner of the prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA, the sale became part of an effort to redeem himself for making offensive remarks about black people.

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