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When Nazi Germany occupied Denmark in 1940, chemist George de Hevesy dissolved two colleagues' Nobel Prize gold medals in aqua regia and left the yellow liquid on a shelf. The Nazis never noticed it. After the war, Hevesy recovered the gold and the Academy recast the medals.
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