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I read about this man today: 1943 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, George de Hevesy.

Read a little way down the Wikipedia article, and you'll see what this man did to preserve two gold Nobel prizes from being stolen by the Nazis during World War II. He melted the medals into an acid, which he kept on his shelf until after the war. Then he extracted the gold and had the prizes reformed into their original shapes. Amazing!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Hevesy