Nobel prizes

Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 Flown LM Lunar Surface Checklist Page (1969) was sold for $143,750 at RR Auction on 21 October 2021

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The highlights of the 2021 science, sci-fi and technology auction year

This is the second part of our overview of the 2021 auction year – a year where investors channeled more of their wealth into “investments of passion” than ever before. It covers the 150 science, sci-fi and technology artifacts that sold for more than $100,000

John F Nash’s struggles with mental illness and his recovery became the basis for Sylvia Nasar's biography, A Beautiful Mind, as well as the film of the same name starring Russell Crowe, and made Nash's story internationally known

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John F. Nash (A Beautiful Mind) Nobel Prize heads to auction ... again

In 2016, the Nobel Prize of John Forbes Nash Junior went to auction with an official estimate of US$2.5 million to $4.0 million and even higher expectations, but failed to make reserve and was passed in. Now the medal is heading to auction again.

John Forbes Nash Junior (left) was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory and shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences . Nash wrote the paper which won him the Nobel Prize when he was just 20 years-of-age, but he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and spent several years in mental institutions during his thirties before his condition improved and allowed him to return to academia. His struggles with mental illness and his recovery became the basis for Sylvia Nasar's biography, A Beautiful Mind, as well as a film of the same name starring Russell Crowe as Nash (right), which won four Academy Awards and made Nash's story internationally known.

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1994 Nobel Prize won by John F. Nash (A Beautiful Mind) goes to auction

In 2013, the Nobel Prize medal won by Francis Crick for the structure of DNA sold for $2,270,500 - 50 times more than any prior medal. The high price catalyzed a new marketplace with prices exceeding $500,000. Now one of the most famous Nobel Prizes is going to auction, and the sky is the limit.

The prize-winning techniques have removed the theoretical limits of optical microscopes (Photo: Shutterstock)

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Super-resolved fluorescence microscopy pioneers awarded 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

This year's winners of the Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell, and William E. Moerner, are honored for their discovery of two methods to bypass the physical limits of optical microscopes to create the field of nanomicroscopy.

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to the inventors of the blue LED, which is the key to modern energy-efficient lighting (Photo: Shutterstock)

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2014 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to inventors of blue LEDs

Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano at the University of Nagoya, and Shuji Nakamura working at Nichia Chemicals in Tokushima, Japan have been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention of the blue LED, which is the key to modern energy-efficient lighting.