Photo: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFPIt's easier to lose a Nobel Prize than to win one. In a less triumphant moment, Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun gave his Nobel Literature Prize medal to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in 1943. And in India in 2017, robbers made off with the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize medal won by Kailash Satyarthi. A bank deposit box containing her 2003 Nobel Peace Prize medal and her Legion d'Honneur medal were seized to pay $410,000 in back taxes, she said. "But they would have needed more than a Nobel medal to hook up," he told AFP in an email.

Source: The Local September 29, 2018 01:18 UTC