The Making of the Atomic Bomb

What happens to the Nobel Prize medals that Max Von Laue and James Franck had given Niels Bohr for safekeeping?

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Niels Bohr takes the Nobel Prize medals of Max Von Laue and James Franck and dissolves them in acid. He leaves them in unmarked bottles on a laboratory shelf where they remain untouched during the war. After the war, the Nobel Foundation recasts them for their owners.