One of the world’s best known scientists Prof James Watson
is set to auction off the Nobel Prize he won in 1962 for the discovery of the
structure of DNA. This will be the first time a living recipient is auctioning
his Nobel Prize medal. The auctioneer says it could fetch between $2.5m and $3.5m.
Watson has been shunned for seven years (since 2007)over his
comments linking race and intelligence. Watson had told the Sunday Times that “black
people were not of equal intelligence to white people.
Later he apologized saying “I apologize… (The journalists) somehow
wrote that I worried about the people in Africa because of their low IQ- and
you are not supposed to say that”
He said it had been” stupid on my part” and insisted he is
not a racist “in a conventional way”
Watson wants part of the proceeds to go to the University of
Chicago, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Clare College in Cambridge University
and Long Island Land Trust and some charities.
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