Timeline Monday 10 December 1951

Events on Monday 10 December 1951 5

• 1951 Cockcroft and Walton win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1951 John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, for splitting atomic nuclei with artificially accelerated particles.
• 1951 Léon Jouhaux wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1951 The French trade unionist Léon Jouhaux.
• 1951 Max Theiler wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1951 Max Theiler, born in South Africa, for his work on yellow fever and its vaccine.
• 1951 McMillan and Seaborg win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951 Edwin McMillan and Glenn Seaborg, for discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements.
• 1951 Pär Lagerkvist wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1951 The Swedish writer Pär Lagerkvist, author of Barabbas.