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Original Title: TIL Physicist Niels Bohr hid 2 medals of Franck and Von Laue from Nazis. When Nazis came, Bohr brought the medals to chemist George de Hevesy for help. Hevesy dissolved the medals into orange liquids, which the Nazis ignored. After WWII, he went back to find the flask untouched.