Timeline Wednesday 10 December 1952

Events on Wednesday 10 December 1952 4

• 1952 Bloch and Purcell win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1952 Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell, for new methods of nuclear magnetic precision measurement.
• 1952 François Mauriac wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1952 François Mauriac, for the spiritual insight and artistic intensity of his novels.
• 1952 Martin and Synge win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952 Archer Martin and Richard Synge, for inventing partition chromatography.
• 1952 Selman Waksman wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 Selman Waksman, for discovering streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis.