Date:16/06/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/06/16/stories/2009061661412000.htm

International

Under the hammer

— PHOTO: AP

JERUSALEM BUYER: An employee of Gallery Fischer holds Albert Einstein’s doctorate certificate of the University of Zurich, dated 1906, during an auction in Lucerne, Switzerland, on Monday. The certificate has been auctioned for Euro 1,69,310 ($2,34,000) and bought by a bidder over telephone from Jerusalem.