Summary

James Watson is scientist who made the discovery of structure of DNA which encodes the instruction booklet for building a living organism with Crick. Thanks to the study, he received the Nobel Prize gold medal in 1962. But he was ostracized by the scientific community because of his remarks about race. After that he decided to sell his gold medal. It was first that a living recipient put his Nobel Prize medal on sell. The gold medal has sold at auction for $4.8m. Mr Watson said he used that money for donating part of proceeds to charities and to support scientific research.

My opinion

I think Mr Watson is great people.  Many people who had been sick saved by study he made. In fact the buyer of his gold medal in auction returned the medal to him. That is because he respected Mr Watson in that leaving the achievement for study of cancer that is the cause of his father’s death. He cooperated with Watson’s plan to donate to charities and support scientific research. In sure criticizing about race is unlike action, but he receive that penalty and think about what he can do for scientific society.  That is difficult way to do, so Mr Watson is a great people and that article is good news.