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You can lose the Nobel Prize medal in a 1000 ways, here's how

A gold replica of the Nobel medal. [AFP]

It's easier to lose a Nobel Prize than to win one.

Smuggled out to impress girls in a bar, or dissolved to prevent the Nazis from getting their hands on one, the precious gold medals have gone missing in crazy, tragic or spectacular ways over the more than hundred-year history of the Nobel Prize.

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