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Russia's
richest man says he has bought James D. Watson's Nobel Prize medal at
Christie's in order to return it to the scientist.
Alisher
Usmanov, a metal and telecommunications tycoon worth US$15.8 billion according
to Forbes magazine, said in remarks carried by Russian television Tuesday that
when he learned that Watson was selling the medal for charity he decided to
purchase it and give it back to him.
Watson's
1962 Nobel prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA sold at Christie's
in a New York auction for US$4.7 million, a world auction record for any Nobel.
The auction house said it was the first Nobel medal that was offered at auction
by a living recipient.
Usmanov
hailed Watson one of the greatest biologists in the history of mankind.
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