Harvard prof's Nobel missing after Mass. break-in

[April 20, 2010]  ARLINGTON, Mass. (AP) -- Police in Massachusetts have caught a man they suspect of breaking into a Harvard professor's home, but they are still looking for his missing Nobel Prize.

Police tell the Boston Herald that Stephen Beaulieu, of Skowhegan, Maine, broke into the Arlington, Mass., home of Roy Glauber (GLAW'-buhr) last month while the 2005 Nobel Prize for physics winner was away.

Authorities say the 42-year-old Beaulieu left behind a half-eaten meal and a supermarket receipt for purchases made with his food stamp card that led to his arrest last week.

Beaulieu has pleaded not guilty to breaking and entering and remains jailed. His attorney didn't return calls.

The 84-year-old Glauber won the Nobel for research into light particles. He says it and other missing academic awards mean a great deal to him.

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Information from: Boston Herald, http://www.bostonherald.com/

[Associated Press]

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