Russia's Usmanov to give back Watson's auctioned Nobel medal

The British Broadcasting Corporation ^ | December 9, 2014

[2ndDivisionVet]

Russia's richest man has revealed that he bought US scientist James Watson's Nobel Prize gold medal, and intends to return it to him.

Steel and telecoms tycoon Alisher Usmanov said Mr Watson "deserved" the medal, and that he was "distressed" the scientist had felt forced to sell it.

The medal, awarded in 1962 for the discovery of the structure of DNA, sold for $4.8m (£3m) at auction.

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

[Stentor]

That’s going to explode the heads of a busybody or two.

[2ndDivisionVet]

That’s why I posted it. [chuckle]

[Stentor]

Public service. Thumbs up.

[Mount Athos]

I wonder if he’ll sell it again for a few more million

[Domangart]

Roslyn discovered DNA. This was a model builder who saw her picture of DNA. She died so the prize went to the alive model builders.

[Talisker]

Wow.

Good job, Alisher Usmanov.

Za vas!

[BenLurkin]

"Ees Rooshian"

[DesertRhino]

Very hip. Good guy. That little giraffe is in good hands.

[jocon307]

That’s incredibly gracious. Thanks for posting this.

[denydenydeny]

Khorosho.

[S.O.S121.500]

DIDN’T see that one coming.......

[mindburglar]

Didn’t Putin do the same thing with Bob Kraft’s Superbowl ring?

[GladesGuru]

Usmanov has demonstrated more intellectual honesty than the academented who shunned Watson for stating the truth about race and IQ scores.

[WKUHilltopper]

“I wonder if he’ll sell it again for a few more million”

That’s what I was thinking.

All he has to do is just think about peace, like Obama, and he might win a Nobel for peace. Then he’ll have two to sell.

[BobL]

“That’s going to explode the heads of a busybody or two.”

No kidding, makes it hard to keep hating Russians.

[Agog]

Didn’t Putin do the same thing with Bob Kraft’s Superbowl ring?
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Not exactly.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/06/putin-what-super-bowl-ring/

During a speech on June 13, Kraft claimed that Putin walked off with his Super Bowl ring after he showed it to him during a 2005 visit to St Petersburg with other business leaders.

“I could kill someone with this ring,” Kraft recalled the ex-KGB spy saying as he held the massive ring, which contains 124 diamonds weighing over 4.94 karats. Reports from 2005 estimated its value at over $25,000.

Then, Kraft claims, Putin put the ring in his pocket and walked off, surrounded by a trio of burly bodyguards.

[mindburglar]

Haha! C’mon of course I knew that. I should’ve added the /sarc tag but that’s cheating.