James Watson sold his Nobel Prize for $4.1 million

[littlemissmartypants]

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James Watson sold his Nobel Prize for $4.1 million in 2014 and donated the proceeds to education.

Physicist Leon Lederman sold his Nobel Prize medal for $765,000 in 2015 to cover medical bills.

Machado gave it away to a fascist after he killed Venezuelan citizens and kidnapped their president.

James Watson sold his Nobel Prize for .1 million in 2014 and donated the proceeds to education.

Physicist Leon Lederman sold his Nobel Prize medal for 5,000 in 2015 to cover medical bills.

Machado gave it away to a fascist after he killed Venezuelan citizens and kidnapped their president.

— ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected (@adelpreore.bsky.social) 2026-01-16T04:19:26.428Z

From auction blocks to Trump’s hands: The Nobel medal has been sold before for millions

Story by Pranav Baskar • 2h

In 2022, Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov auctioned his Nobel Peace Prize for a record-breaking $103.5 million to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees. In 2014, James Watson sold his for over $4 million, having been awarded the medal decades earlier for codiscovering the structure of DNA.
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[RockRaven]

1. Maduro, eh?

[Celerity]

3. They corrected it.

*Machado

— ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected (@adelpreore.bsky.social) 2026-01-16T03:08:36.531Z

[Blasphemer]

2. It's his payment. Grifters gotta grift. nt

[Beartracks]

4. Trump wanted his participation trophy, he got his participation trophy.

But he's still not been awarded a Nobel prize; he's just been handed a used one. The honorifics don't transfer with it.

It's like if an Academy Award recipient gave you their Oscar: it doesn't make you proficient at anything the Oscar stands for, and the original artist is still the Oscar winner, not you.

He is such a toddler.

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[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

5. Trump has 29 more to go, as he has betrayed the United States.

Some of you may get the religious reference.

[Easterncedar]

6. Fix the OP? Machado not Maduro?

[littlemissmartypants]

7. It wasn't my error to fix. However, the Bluesky poster deleted the post and corrected his error. Therefore, I deleted...

His original text and reposted his update. Thanks for the heads-up, Easterncedar.

[DFW]

8. Trump would have a hard time getting his hands on Muratov's Nobel Prize

The winning bid of $103,500,000 may seem an odd figure, but makes more sense when one knows that $103,500,000 at the time of the sale was equivalent to exactly 100,000,000 Swiss Francs. There are more than a couple anti-Putin gazillionaires living in Switzerland. The auctioning firm, Heritage Auctions of Dallas, put on the Auction for free, absorbing all expenses, and even requested the winning bidder to wire the money directly to the charity, so that not even one cent could disappear into their hands as “expenses.” The winning bidder didn’t even request delivery of his medal (not speculation—I know where it is, and it is not in the USA or Switzerland). The buyer’s action was strictly a charitable contribution made under the guise of an auction purchase. He wanted to make a charitable contribution, not acquire an expensive trophy that he had never earned.