The Nobel medal American molecular biologist James Dewey Watson received in 1962 fetched US$4.75 million at an auction in New York Thursday (local time).
The price for Watson's Nobel medal smashed its pre-sale estimate of up to $3.5 million.
Watson, 86, is best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, Linus Pauling and Francis Crick. Watson, Crick, and Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Crick's Nobel medal was also sold for $2.3 million at an auction in 2013, nine years after his death.
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Park Sae-jin
swatchsjp@ajunews.com
