A Nobel Prize-winning physicist sold his medal for $765,000 to pay medical bills. Only in America.By Sarah KliffVox, October 4, 2018Leon Lederman won a Nobel Prize in 1988 for his pioneering physics research.But in 2015, the physicist, who passed away Wednesday, sold his Nobel Prize medal for $765,000 to pay his mounting medical bills. The University of Chicago professor began to suffer from memory loss in 2011, and died in an Idaho nursing home.Yes, only in America. Nobel laureate Leon Lederman sold his Nobel medal in order to help pay for his pending medical bills.