Ernest O. Lawrence's physics Nobel medal stolen from Berkeley
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Thieves have stolen a Nobel Prize gold medal from a museum diplay case at the University of California, Berkeley.
The medal was awarded for the Nobel Prize in physics in 1939 to the late physicist Ernest O. Lawrence for the invention of the cyclotron and was the first ever won by a university faculty member.
The medal had been stored in a locked display case at the Lawrence Hall of Science, a hands-on science museum in the hills above the Berkeley campus.
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The medal was awarded for the Nobel Prize in physics in 1939 to the late physicist Ernest O. Lawrence for the invention of the cyclotron and was the first ever won by a university faculty member.
The medal had been stored in a locked display case at the Lawrence Hall of Science, a hands-on science museum in the hills above the Berkeley campus.