tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post5630626451707974022..comments2024-03-28T09:22:36.967+13:00Comments on Offsetting Behaviour: Morning updates [updated]Eric Cramptonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15831696523324469713noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-82957448198412842902009-07-16T23:30:57.265+12:002009-07-16T23:30:57.265+12:00Apparently, Dutch physicist Niels Bohr used that m...Apparently, Dutch physicist Niels Bohr used that method to save his Nobel medal from the German invading forces in 1943. He left the country to avoid arrest, but didn't want to take the medal with him, presumably because possessing it would identify him. Instead he dropped the medal in a jar of nitric acid and left it in a cupboard, where it was overlooked when his house was searched. After the war was over he returned to Copenhagen, retrieved the jar, precipitated out the gold and returned it to the Nobel society, who restruck it for him into its orignal form.<br /><br />This may be apocryphal, but it's still a great story.Gaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07556494270770913766noreply@blogger.com