James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
Source: The Telegraph
World-famous biologist James Watson said he is selling the Nobel Prize medal he won in 1962 for discovering the structure of DNA because he has been ostracised and needs the money
James Watson, the world-famous biologist who was shunned by the scientific community after linking intelligence to race, said he is selling his Nobel Prize because he is short of money after being made a pariah.
Mr Watson said he is auctioning the Nobel Prize medal he won in 1962 for discovering the structure of DNA, because “no-one really wants to admit I exist”.
Auctioneer Christie’s said the gold medal, the first Nobel Prize to be sold by a living recipient, could fetch as much as $3.5m (£2.23m) when it is auctioned in New York on Thursday. The reserve price is $2.5m.
Mr Watson told the Financial Times he had become an “unperson” after he “was outed as believing in IQ” in 2007 and said he would like to use money from the sale to buy a David Hockney painting.
Mr Watson, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for uncovering the double helix structure of DNA, sparked an outcry in 2007 when he suggested that people of African descent were inherently less intelligent than white people.
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It sold for 4.76 million US dollars:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/05/james-watson-nobel-auction_n_6275526.html
I remember watson shared this award with Crick probably a German.Crick and Watson ,double Helix ,ribosin,DNA,Adenine, nucleotide sequence, delay ribonucleic acid. Our book in biology in PAF college was American, but our teacher Mrs Tamkeen Tareen would speak in British accent. Her husband was a brigadier .She taught us in grade 11 and 12.She was very soft and polite.She was pretty like my mom.She loved us and we loved her.She was my big support.If by the way he sells a Chinese replica of the Nobel laureate Medal.I would love to buy Medel from dollar discount for all my kids.It was called crick and Watson DNA model.Chromosomes are made up of DNA.There is mitosis for all body cells.The number of chromosomes remain the same.Then there is meosis for some cells,in which the number gets halved.With electronic microscope it is visible. In Histopathology we saw it.Amazing is Allah the creator.
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James Watson
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James Watson
Born James Dewey Watson
April 6, 1928 (age 86)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality American
Fields Genetics
Institutions Indiana University
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Harvard University
University of Cambridge
National Institutes of Health
Alma mater University of Chicago (B.S., 1947)
Indiana University (Ph.D., 1950)
Thesis The Biological Properties of X-Ray Inactivated Bacteriophage (1951)
Doctoral advisor Salvador Luria
Doctoral students
Mario Capecchi[1]
Joan Steitz[2]
Other notable students Ewan Birney[3]
Known for DNA structure
Molecular biology
Notable awards Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1962)
Copley Medal (1993)[4]
Lomonosov Gold Medal (1994)
Spouse Elizabeth Watson (née Lewis)
Signature
Website
Alzheimer’s Prevention Program: Keep Your Brain Healthy for the Rest of Your Life
of California Television (UCTV)
University of California Television (UCTV)