Nobel Prize winner sells medal for 4.7 mln USD
诺贝尔奖获得者470万美元出售奖章

A 1962 Nobel prize has been sold at an auction in New York for 4.7 million US Dollars, the first ever auction for a Nobel prize medal.

The gold medal was won by James Watson, the only living Nobel laureate to sell his prize. Watson says part of the proceeds will go to educational institutes and other charities.

Watson discovered the double helix structure of DNA in 1953 with other two scientists. It was believed to be one of the most significant discoveries in 20th century and earned Watson the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology in 1962.

However, the famous geneticist has been largely isolated from scientific community and lived in poverty after he said in an interview that Africans were genetically less intelligent than others.