James Watson sold his Nobel Prize for $4.1 million in 2014 and donated the proceeds to education.

Physicist Leon Lederman sold his Nobel Prize medal for $765,000 in 2015 to cover medical bills.

Machado gave it away to a fascist after he killed Venezuelan citizens and kidnapped their president.

James Watson sold his Nobel Prize for .1 million in 2014 and donated the proceeds to education.

Physicist Leon Lederman sold his Nobel Prize medal for 5,000 in 2015 to cover medical bills.

Machado gave it away to a fascist after he killed Venezuelan citizens and kidnapped their president.

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From auction blocks to Trump’s hands: The Nobel medal has been sold before for millions

Story by Pranav Baskar • 2h

In 2022, Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov auctioned his Nobel Peace Prize for a record-breaking $103.5 million to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees. In 2014, James Watson sold his for over $4 million, having been awarded the medal decades earlier for codiscovering the structure of DNA.
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