It was in death, however, that Nobel made his indelible mark on the world.

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Nearly 1, 000 survivors and World War II vets joined with former President Bill Clinton and Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust activist Elie Wiesel to mark the museum's 20th anniversary.

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While the panel onstage included Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and billionaire investor Yuri Milner discussing awards greater in monetary value than the Nobel Prize for medicine, cameras in the crowd turned to focus on Brin and the device wrapped around his head.

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