Pursuits
Richest Russian Buys Watson’s Nobel Medal, Plans to Return It
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Alisher Usmanov, Russia’s richest man, bought the Nobel Prize medal of American biologist James Watson at a Christie’s auction and plans to return it.
Usmanov paid $4.1 million for the medal, awarded to Watson in 1962 for his work on discovering the structure of DNA, the billionaire’s USM Holdings said in a statement today.