James Watson who won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for discovering the structure of DNA sold off the gold medal for an amazingly high price of $4.1 million at an auction house in New York to an anonymous bidder over the telephone. This makes it the most expensive Nobel Prize ever sold at an auction.
Christie’s representatives at Manhattan were surprised too with the medal fetching much more than what they had expected. While $2.5-3.5 million could have been thought of, this was something they had not even imagined!
