Timeline Monday 10 December 1945

Events on Monday 10 December 1945 5

• 1945 Artturi Virtanen wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1945 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, for research in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially his method of preserving fodder.
• 1945 Cordell Hull wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1945 Cordell Hull, US Secretary of State, for his role in founding the United Nations.
• 1945 Fleming, Chain and Florey win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 Alexander Fleming, Ernst Chain and Howard Florey, for discovering penicillin and its curative effect in infectious diseases.
• 1945 Gabriela Mistral wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1945 The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral — the first Latin American Nobel laureate in literature.
• 1945 Wolfgang Pauli wins the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1945 Wolfgang Pauli, for discovering the exclusion principle.