The Great Adventures in Science

Two german physicists, max von laue and james frank, who were both at risk within germany. They had sent their nobel medals secretly to boer's institute for safe keeping. At the time, germany was at war, and it was actually illegal to remove gold from the country. So by sending their gold medals to bor's lab, frank and von laua had committed what would probably be a capital offence back home. And worse, it couldn't rally be covered up because their names were engraved on the gold medals. By the time the noes arrived, both awards had liquefied inside a flask that was then stash on a high laboratory