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Published online 7 March 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070305-5
Corrected online: 8 March 2007

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Nobel medal swiped

Medallion goes missing in California.

A caper of Nobel stature has struck the University of California, Berkeley.

A thief has swiped the solid-gold medallion given as a Nobel Prize in Physics to Ernest Lawrence in 1939, in honour of his work inventing the cyclotron.

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