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   BeeCycling (beecycling@romancelandia.club)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 01:40:50 JST BeeCycling

   There are lots of ways to resist evil, including being intellectually kickass, like George de Hevesy, a Hungarian radiochemist, working in Denmark prior to WW2. German scientists and opponents of the Nazis, Max von Laue and James Franck sent their Nobel Prize medals to Denmark to keep them from being taken by the Nazis. When Denmark fell, de Hevesy dissolved the medals in acid and left the resulting solution on a shelf in his lab at the Nihls Bohr Institute. 1/2

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     BeeCycling (beecycling@romancelandia.club)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 01:41:18 JST BeeCycling

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     de Hevesy, who had Jewish grandparents, later had to flee Copenhagen, but after the war, he returned to his lab, to find the solution undisturbed on the shelf. He precipitated the gold out of the acid and sent the gold to Stockholm, where the Nobel Society then recast the medals using the recovered gold and returned them to the two laureates.

     de Hevesy also won his own Nobel prize in 1943.

     Resistance through chemistry.

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