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Leon Lederman, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics and author of The God Particle, faced overwhelming medical debt near the end of his life and was forced to sell his Nobel Prize to pay it off

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Fun Fact: Leon Lederman, recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics and author of The God Particle, faced overwhelming medical debt near the end of his life and was forced to sell his Nobel Prize to pay it off

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