On October 3, 2022, the Swedish Caroline Medical College announced that it would award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology (Medical Prize) to Swedish scientist Swant Pebo in recognition of his contributions to the research of the extinct ancient human genome and human evolution .
Everyone should be clear about this. Nobel Prize is the same as sports events such as the Olympics and Asian Games. Nobel Prize winners will receive medals.
Nobel Medal is purely handmade, weighing 270 grams overall, containing gold, with a diameter of about 6.5 cm, and a Nobel's relief statue on the front. The back of
has different patterns depending on the awards. On the back of the medal of the Literature Award is the muse playing the lyre . A young man sits under the laurel , listening and recording.
Physiology or Medical Prize medal is the medicine goddess with a book spread on her knee, holding the patient with one hand and holding a bowl with the other hand, preparing to give it to the patient to drink.
On December 4, 2014, James Watson, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and one of the discoverers of the structure of DNA double helix announced the auction of his Nobel Prize Medal.
James Watson, known as the "father of DNA", is not a joke. He sent the Nobel Medal to Christie's auction house in New York for public auction, and finally sold a high price of 4.757 million US dollars (including commissions)!
But what is strange is that the richest man in Russia who spent more than 4.7 million US dollars to buy this Nobel Medal, Alisher Usmanov, actually returned the Nobel Medal to Watson . What's going on?
James Watson was born in April 1928. At the age of seven, James Watson got the first book on birds from his father, which detailed the process of migration of various birds.
After reading this book, James Watson Jr. was puzzled: How do birds fly from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere? Can old or young birds fly thousands of kilometers and span the northern and southern hemispheres?
In order to find out the answer to the question, James Watson has cultivated himself the good habit of studying hard and asking questions and thinking independently by reading a lot of related books.
1943, 15-year-old James Watson skipped the grade and was admitted to University of Chicago . Because of her talent, James Watson's scores in biology and zoology were particularly outstanding after entering university, and his scores in other courses were also at the forefront.
James Watson originally wanted to learn ornithology , but because the Department of Animals at Indiana University does not have an ornithology major, he had to switch to studying genetics .
In James Watson's view, whether humans or animals, there will be genetic DNA. Learning genetics is equivalent to learning from other things, and the gap with childhood dreams is not big.
However, the employment prospects for genetics were very bad at that time. It can be seen that James Watson did everything based on his personality.
I have to admit that James' learning ability has made many students envious, and he easily obtained his doctorate at the age of 22. At the age of 23, he went to Cambridge University in the UK to study for his Ph.D. Later, he worked hard to study the molecular structure of DNA.
27, James Watson published the DNA double helix structure model in Nature magazine in more than 1,000 words and an illustration. At less than 30 years old, he became one of the leaders of molecular biology in the 20th century.
James Watson was invited to teach at Harvard University and later promoted to Harvard University Professor, mainly engaged in protein biosynthesis research.
In 1962, James won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Morris Wilkins and Francis Creek . At this time, 34-year-old James Watson had reached the point of "seeing all the mountains at a glance".
40, James Watson served as director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, New York, dedicated to oncology research. He once served as the speaker of Human Genome Project .
spare time, James Watson is keen on education, actively explores the use of multimedia for new education, and sets up a DNA learning center through the Internet.
In 2006, James Watson was named the 68th person influencing the United States by the authoritative American journal " Atlantic Monthly ".
Story: Speaking of this, we can all see that James Watson's life is perfect. He was a teenager and passed the imperial examination in Cambridge, , Harvard, , won the Nobel Prize at the age of 34, and was also selected by authoritative magazines as an important figure influencing the United States.
But why does such a social elite auction his Nobel Medal?
As mentioned in the previous article, James Watson works all based on his personal preferences, and his personality is very problematic. When James Watson won the Nobel Prize together with Morris Wilkins and Francis Creek, he wrote in his book: "I have never seen Creek show a modest and cautious attitude."
roughly means that he believed that Criek was completely unknown at the time, and the reason why he won the Nobel Prize was to follow him and steal the fruits.
If James Watson looks down on his partners, it is understandable. After all, these top talents have super high IQ and certain personalities are inevitably subject to some problems.
But in his book "Double Helix", James Watson also criticized many elite scientists of the same period. Many of his remarks were false, angering many scientific leaders and suggesting his tragic fate in the future.
On October 10, 2007, James Watson said in an interview with the media that "is pessimistic about the future of Africa." It directly points out that there is a gap between Africans' IQ and white people. He equates IQ with intelligence, which is actually very unrigorous and unprofessional.
Moreover, James Watson's remarks also touched the taboos of Western society and were naked racial discrimination. But until now, he has not reflected on or apologized for his remarks and views, but he just regrets that he said it in public.
After this incident, the former Harvard professor and director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, New York was forced to resign under the attack of public opinion.
loses his source of life without a stable job. Although James Watson is a top biologist in the world, no institution dares to accept him after being banned.
There will always be a day when old capital is finished. In 2014, James Watson, who was forced to auction his Nobel Medal and related academic papers, from a promising biologist to a rat crossing the street that everyone shouted.
On December 4, 2014, James Watson, known as the "genius prodigy", auctioned his Nobel Medal at Christie Auction House in New York. He was also the first winner to sell the Nobel Medal before his death.
Soon, a Russian super rich man named Usmanov spent $4.757 million (including commission) to win the Nobel Medal of James Watson by phone.
And what James looked down upon was Francis Creek, who won the Nobel Prize with him. After his death in 2004, his family auctioned his Nobel Medal for $2.27 million in April 2013.
Since there is a "learning from the past", James Watson originally estimated his medal at about $3.5 million, but in the end it sold for more than $4.7 million, which made the old man very happy. After the auction ended, James Watson, who was already 86 years old, held the Nobel Medal in his hand for the last time. The reporters present shouted: "That's no longer your thing. "
At this moment, James Watson no longer had the spirit of receiving the Nobel Prize, but an old elder, walking with staggering steps, was laughed by everyone.
On December 9, 2014, Usmanov, who photographed the James Watson Nobel Medal, publicly announced that he would return the medal to the original owner.
In the eyes of this super rich man, an outstanding talent should not sell the medal that represents his achievements. No matter what, James Watson is one of the greatest biologists in human history. This medal symbolizing the discovery of DNA structure should belong to him forever.
In 2019, James Watson, who is already 90 years old, was in trouble again. Because he kept promoting these wrong remarks about racism to the public, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory decided to take back all the honorary titles of James Watson. How to say
? James Watson is actually a big mouth. Because of the halo of "the father of DNA" and "the Nobel Prize winner", the public and the media can easily believe his conclusions and then use them to further misinterpret and play them, which will escalate into a public opinion contradiction.
, to sum up, No zuo no die (you won’t die if you don’t do it)!
References:
[1] "Double Helix" is almost banned from publication - a record of some little-known stories by James Watson, author Zhang Changqing, World Science 2013 Issue 06
[2] "The Father of DNA" - James Dewey Watson, author Liu Tingting Song Xuefeng, Children's Technology 2018 Issue 10
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