Slate Voice: “James Watson Throws a Fit”
Listen to Laura Helmuth read her piece about the tarnished legacy of a Nobel laureate.
“James Watson Throws a Fit,” originally published in Slate on Dec. 1, 2014, is about an auction for the co-discoverer of DNA’s Nobel Prize medal. Subsequent reporting revealed the high bidder to be a Russian billionaire named Alisher Usmanov, who announced plans to return the medal to Watson.
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