DNA pioneer to sell Nobel Prize

By Bryony Jones, CNN

updated 5:14 PM EST, Tue November 25, 2014

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(CNN) -- DNA pioneer James Watson is to sell the Nobel Prize he won for his co-discovery of the double helix structure -- the building block of life.

The coveted gold medal is expected to go under the hammer for up to $3.5 million in a sale at Christie's in New York on December 4.

It will be the first time a Nobel Prize has been sold by a living recipient.

Watson, now 85, was awarded the medal, for work in the field of physiology or medicine, alongside fellow scientists Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins in 1962.

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