A small room is rather randomly dedicated to poet Gabriela Mistral and includes correspondence and a replica of her Nobel medal.

In his view, Long-Term Capital demonstrated nothing more than that there are winners and losers - and that the losers can even own a Nobel medal.

In four years, or eight, he may well have won no Nobel medal, made no final repair.

On 24 March 2004 his Nobel medal was stolen from Shantiniketan in Bengal, where it was housed in his residence turned museum.

Millions of people have loved 'The Lord of The Rings', and I'd guess that would have meant more to him than a Nobel medal.

Because of the high value of their gold content and tendency to be on public display, Nobel medals are subject to medal theft.

In 1976 he got the golden Nobel medal and in 2007 he received Caruso prize.

Every year, one of the world's great economic thinkers wins a Nobel medal - and an interesting amount of cash.

Shortly before his death he marked his lifelong devotion to Trinity by presenting his Nobel medal and citation to the college.

The advertisements, which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, showed a Nobel medal turned upside down and called the omission "the shameful wrong that must be righted."