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Crick Institute to benefit from sale of namesake’s Nobel medal

The Nobel Prize medal won by Francis Crick is to be auctioned, with some of the proceeds pledged for the biomedical research institute that bears his name.

The medal is being sold by Crick’s family and could fetch up to £3 million, the Cambridge News reports. Crick was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins in 1962 for their work in describing the structure of DNA.

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