"When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of the German physicists Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from confiscating them. The German government had prohibited Germans from accepting or keeping any Nobel Prize after the jailed peace activist Carl von Ossietzky had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935. De Hevesy placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was subsequently ignored by the Nazis who thought the jar—one of perhaps hundreds on the shelving—contained common chemicals. After the war, de Hevesy returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The gold was returned to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation who recast the medals and again presented them to Laue and Franck.[5][6]"

"Dirk Nowitzki, Mavs forward
“I have no idea [if he’s gone for good]. He’s just unpredictable. With his lineups, with his game plans. He’s liable to pull out anything. I thought he was done after Dallas, after he got a little sick of stuff. Next you know, he said, ‘I’m coming back.’ With Nellie, I learned that quick in my first year — he’s liable to do anything.
“In my second game ever in the NBA — obviously I wasn’t a defensive presence — he wanted me out there in the game but he didn’t have anybody for me to guard. So he let me guard [5-foot-3] Muggsy Bogues for a couple possessions. He said, ‘Just stand there in the paint and wave at him. He doesn’t want to shoot.’
“I owe him a lot. If I come to a different system, I don’t have that freedom to just roam and shoot and develop into the player that I am right now. Probably they’d make me a back-to-the-basket player, weightlifting and all that stuff. Nellie just gave me the freedom from Day 1: ‘Whenever you get on the court, you shoot from wherever you are.’ He gave me a lot of confidence. For me, it was just the perfect situation. We weren’t a playoff team the first two years, so there wasn’t a lot of pressure going. So I could develop. Yeah, Nellie’s the man. I can’t describe it any other way."