Comic #2206: 2011-05-29

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Panel 1: Text: In 1940, on the morning of the Nazi invasion of Denmark, Niels Bohr worried they’d take Max von Laue’s Nobel Prize.

Panel 2: Text: His friend, George de Hevesy, decided to hide it by dissolving it in aqua regia.

Panel 3: Text: The solution sat on the shelf during the entire occupation.

Panel 4: Text: After the war, he precipitated the gold out of solution, and the Nobel Society recast the medal.

Panel 5: Text: Which is why everyone liked de Hevesy… except perhaps his children. Dialogue: Daddy… where’s my dollhouse? Dialogue: Safe.

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