Timeline Friday 10 December 1909

Events on Friday 10 December 1909 5

• 1909 Beernaert and d'Estournelles de Constant win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1909 Auguste Beernaert and Paul d'Estournelles de Constant, delegates to the Hague peace conferences.
• 1909 Marconi and Braun win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun, for developing wireless telegraphy.
• 1909 Selma Lagerlöf wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1909 Selma Lagerlöf, author of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils — the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1909 Theodor Kocher wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909 Emil Theodor Kocher, for his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland.
• 1909 Wilhelm Ostwald wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1909 Wilhelm Ostwald, for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibrium and reaction rates.