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The page is fiction, but it documents fact at the bottom: This be fiction based on a true story. George de Hevesy is credited with dissolving two Nobel Prizes
by jws 16y ago
The page is fiction, but it documents fact at the bottom:
This be fiction based on a true story. George de Hevesy is credited with dissolving two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia and storing them during the second world war, where they remained unnoticed despite careful searching by the Nazis. The gold was later recovered and recoined, and presented back to the two owners. George de Hevesy won the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on radioactive isotopes.