How do you hide a lump of gold in plain sight?
- Author
- The Times
- Published
- Mon 14 Jul 2025
- Episode Link
- https://shows.acast.com/making-science/episodes/how-to-hide-a-nobel-prize
It's April in 1940. The Nazis are occupying Copenhagen. As they march through the streets, a stark realisation hits the physicist Niels Bohr. He has hours - maybe less - to make two Nobel Prize medals disappear completely. What might a substance named Aqua Regia and a humble beaker do conceal two huge lumps of gold? And bring it back again...a decade later.
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