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Dr Peter Wothers weighs a volunteer from the 2012 Christmas Lectures audience with 24 carat pure gold. Finding himself a little short of the right amount, he calls in help from famous chemist Sir Harry Kroto and his gold Nobel Prize medal (awarded in 1996 for his discovery of a new form of Carbon, C60).
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She probably expected an explosion of some sort…
How many more Christmas Lectures are there still to be released?
This year there were three Lectures in the Modern Alchemist series. We are in the process of publishing the digital archive of Lectures of the Ri Channel – dating back to 1966!
There were various shadowy figures in the background watching very closely. They knew exactly how much gold Peter had on the table.
brilliant
He is wrong. The medal is 18k or 75% gold with 24k plating. Sir Harold Kroto won the Nobel prize in 1996. 1980 and before they were 23k gold or 95.8% gold.
Thanks!
That's a bit unfair on Sir Harry! 🙂
This can only happen in england=)
If I was sitting there, I would just take my ak 47 took the gold and run)) hahaha
love UK))
Sir Harry Kroto was one of three scientists who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene and a mechanism by which it could be created in carbon stars.
I'd like to see someone dash away with that much gold…it wouldn't be a speedy escape…
Exploding gold? I am sure someone will figure out that 😀
How about 43 kilos of pure Platinum? how much money
It would weigh roughly 1.4 million grams, or 1.4 tonnes
It's actualy 2.5 million, there's a nobel price in it 😛
He never got his Nobel Prize back?
It's hard to think that the small pile is worth more than what most people would ever dream of having…
i will take gold, i think
I would take a gold bar for myself.
1.5 Mil pounds of gold!?!? How did he pick up and place them on the scale then?
I was waiting for the lights to come on and off and the gold being gone.
Now, if you can lift it, you can have it!
Those bars aren't real gold
Why his voice same as Gordan Ramsay？？
I am surprised, that little girl weighs 43Kgs !!