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DNA Nobel Prize Winner Sells Prize For $4 Million–Was Ostracized Because Of “Racisr” Remarks (Picture)

Friday, December 5, 2014 14:05

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The Nobel Prize gold medal awarded to the US scientist James Watson for discovering the structure of DNA has sold at auction for $4.8m (£3m).

The 1962 prize was awarded to Watson, Maurice Wilkins and Francis Crick, with each receiving a gold medal.

The medal is the first Nobel Prize to be put on sale by a living recipient.

Watson recently said he was selling the medal because he had been ostracised by the scientific community after remarks he made about race in a 2007 interview.

The discovery of the structure of DNA – which encodes the instruction booklet for building a living organism – was made by Watson and Crick, using experimental data that had been gathered by Maurice Wilkins, Raymond Gosling and Rosalind Franklin. morehere

Cory Doctorow at 8:22 am Fri, Dec 5, 2014

The co-recipient of the Nobel for revealing the double-helix structure of DNA is selling his medal because “no one really wants to admit” he exists — but why is that?

Because he says racist, sexist, jerky things in public, leading people to suspect that he is a racist, sexist jerk.

Adam Rutherford has a great editorial explaining how we can honor great scientific achievements without giving scientists a free pass to be terrible people.

But it’s not awful. Watson has said that he is “not a racist in a conventional way”. But he told the Sunday Times in 2007 that while people may like to think that all races are born with equal intelligence, those “who have to deal with black employees find this not true”. Call me old-fashioned, but that sounds like bog-standard, run-of-the-mill racism to me.

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