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By Ruth McCann / The Bulletin
August 15, 2009
WASHINGTON " In 2004, nuclear-physicist-cum-billionaire Peter Buck purchased one of the world's most fabulous rubies for an undisclosed sum and donated it to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in memory of Carmen Lucia Buck, his late wife.
Buck described the acquisition....