From Heritage or wherever. I saw this one today and thought it might make a neat thread: Francis H. C. Crick Nobel Prize Medal and Nobel Diploma Sold for: $2,270,500.00 In 1962, Dr. Francis Harry Compton Crick received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Drs. James Dewey Watson and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, for "...their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material." It was a discovery that launched a scientific revolution and forever changed man's understanding of life.
BTW, Dougmeister. I know the second half of your ending quote is J.R.R. Tolkien. Did he say the "gold" part, too? Steve
