BBC: A Cambridge professor who won one of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics, the Fields Medal, has had his award stolen in Brazil.
Professor Caucher Birkar, a Kurd, came to the UK as a refugee from Iran.He was one of four people honoured for their contributions to mathematics and had said that he “couldn’t imagine that this would come true”.
But just minutes later, he discovered that the 14-carat gold medal had gone missing.
According to Brazil’s TV Globo, he left it along with his wallet and phone in a briefcase on a table at the convention centre where the event was taking place.
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