Timeline Thursday 10 December 1953

Events on Thursday 10 December 1953 5

• 1953 Frits Zernike wins the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1953 Frits Zernike, for the phase-contrast method and the phase-contrast microscope.
• 1953 George C. Marshall wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1953 George C. Marshall, for the Marshall Plan that rebuilt post-war Europe.
• 1953 Hermann Staudinger wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1953 Hermann Staudinger, for his discoveries in macromolecular chemistry — the science of polymers.
• 1953 Krebs and Lipmann win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953 Hans Krebs for discovering the citric acid cycle, and Fritz Lipmann for coenzyme A.
• 1953 Winston Churchill wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 Winston Churchill, for his historical and biographical writing and his oratory.