The Nobel Prize medal awarded to Sir Robert Edwards — the inventor of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) — three years before his death could fetch £800,000 at auction. Sir Edwards was presented with the 18-carat green gold medal in 2010 — with the award now having been put up for auction by his descendants. Sir Robert realised as early as 1958 that fertilisation outside of the body might be used to help treat infertility. Sir Robert was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of the achievement, as his two collaborators had died by the time it was presented. The current auction record for a Nobel Prize Medal was set in 2014, when James Watson's medal for decoding DNA was sold for £4.8 million ($6.0 million).

Source: Daily Mail June 15, 2020 09:06 UTC