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The Nobel Prize Medallion

Lack of Rules on Selling Medals Allows James Watson to Sell His Nobel Medal for $4.75M

The Nobel Foundation, which awards the coveted Nobel Prize to five different categories, lacks rules on the selling of the medals it has given to its awardees. This loophole allowed DNA Double Helix co-discoverer James Watson to sell the Nobel medal for Physiology and Medicine he got in 1962.

The Nobel Prize Medallion

A Broke James Watson is Auctioning-off His Nobel Prize Medallion

Watson was one of the scientists who discovered the DNA double helix in 1962.

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