DNA discoverer Crick's Nobel, letter fetch millions at auction
Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 11:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Nobel Prize medal won by Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, sold for $2.27 million at auction on Thursday, a day after a letter in which Crick outlined the achievement to his young son became the most expensive letter ever auctioned when it fetched more than $6 million.