2011-05-29
Original: 2011-05-29 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (caption): In 1940, on the morning of the Nazi invasion of Denmark, Niels Bohr worried they'd take Max von Laue's Nobel Prize.
(A man in a suit holds a gold medal, looking worried.)
Panel 2 (caption): His friend, George de Hevesy, decided to hide it by dissolving it in aqua regia.
(A balding man with a mustache shrugs, standing behind a glass beaker on a table that holds the gold medal in dark liquid.)
Panel 3 (caption): The solution sat on the shelf during the entire occupation.
(A shelf with various jars and containers, including a dark glass of liquid.)
Panel 4 (caption): After the war, he precipitated the gold out of solution, and the Nobel Society recast the medal.
(The same balding man shrugs behind the beaker, now with gold settling at the bottom.)
Panel 5 (caption): Which is why everyone liked de Hevesy... except perhaps his children.
Girl: Daddy... where's my dollhouse?
De Hevesy: Safe.
(A young girl with reddish-brown hair faces the balding man.)
Votey:
Girl: Where's my brother?
(Close-up of the girl's worried face.)
(A man in a suit holds a gold medal, looking worried.)
Panel 2 (caption): His friend, George de Hevesy, decided to hide it by dissolving it in aqua regia.
(A balding man with a mustache shrugs, standing behind a glass beaker on a table that holds the gold medal in dark liquid.)
Panel 3 (caption): The solution sat on the shelf during the entire occupation.
(A shelf with various jars and containers, including a dark glass of liquid.)
Panel 4 (caption): After the war, he precipitated the gold out of solution, and the Nobel Society recast the medal.
(The same balding man shrugs behind the beaker, now with gold settling at the bottom.)
Panel 5 (caption): Which is why everyone liked de Hevesy... except perhaps his children.
Girl: Daddy... where's my dollhouse?
De Hevesy: Safe.
(A young girl with reddish-brown hair faces the balding man.)
Votey:
Girl: Where's my brother?
(Close-up of the girl's worried face.)
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic telling the true story of chemist George de Hevesy. Panel 1, captioned that in 1940 on the morning of the Nazi invasion of Denmark, Niels Bohr worried they would take Max von Laue's Nobel Prize: a worried man in a suit holds a gold medal. Panel 2, captioned that his friend George de Hevesy decided to hide it by dissolving it in aqua regia: a balding mustached man shrugs behind a beaker holding the gold medal in dark liquid. Panel 3, captioned that the solution sat on the shelf during the entire occupation: a shelf of jars including the dark glass of solution. Panel 4, captioned that after the war he precipitated the gold out and the Nobel Society recast the medal: the same man shrugs behind the beaker, now with gold settled at the bottom. Panel 5, captioned that everyone liked de Hevesy except perhaps his children: a young girl asks 'Daddy... where's my dollhouse?' and he answers 'Safe.' implying he dissolved or hid it the same way. The votey is a close-up of the girl's worried face asking 'Where's my brother?', escalating the joke that he has been dissolving her belongings and now possibly a person.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.