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2004 Physics Nobel Laureate DNA Sells on eBay MIT Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek and his wife, Betsy Devine, recently found themselves the subjects of an unusual eBay auction: Some enterprising students from a Swedish high school saved the glasses the two had sipped from while visiting the school and then offered them for sale. The sale offered buyers the chance to own some DNA from a Nobel laureate. And, it served a worthy cause: Proceeds would go toward a field trip for the senior class.
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