George de Hevesy’s chemistry Nobel medal up for auction
Collection of medals of radiochemist who hid two other Nobel laureates’ gold medals from the Nazis by dissolving them is expected to fetch £120,000
The Nobel prize medal awarded to Hungarian radiochemist George de Hevesy in 1943 is going under the hammer at Morton & Eden in London, UK on 23 November. De Hevesy won the prize for his work on the use of radioactive isotopes as tracers to study chemical reactions. He is also known for helping two German Nobel laureates – Max von Laue and James Franck – hide their medals from the Nazis