Record for Nobel Prize medal at $4.1m

James Watson’s 1962 award for his work on DNA set a world record price for a Nobel Prize Medal at Christie’s in New York when it sold for $4.1m (£2.6m) hammer.

One of the world's greatest living scientists, Dr Watson won the award for his ground-breaking disco…

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