Timeline Saturday 10 December 1938

Events on Saturday 10 December 1938 2

• 1938 Fermi awarded Nobel Prize and leaves Italy Fermi uses the Stockholm ceremony to escape Fascist Italy Enrico Fermi received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on neutron-induced radioactivity. Italy's new racial laws threatened his Jewish wife, so the family went on to the United States instead of returning home.
• 1938 Pearl S. Buck awarded Nobel Prize in Literature The first American woman to win the literature prize Pearl S. Buck received the prize for her portrayals of peasant life in China and her biographical works. She was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.