Timeline Saturday 10 December 1955

Events on Saturday 10 December 1955 4

• 1955 Halldór Laxness wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1955 The Icelandic novelist Halldór Laxness, for renewing the great narrative art of Iceland.
• 1955 Hugo Theorell wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1955 Axel Hugo Theorell, for discoveries on the nature and action of oxidation enzymes.
• 1955 Lamb and Kusch win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1955 Willis Lamb for the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum, and Polykarp Kusch for the magnetic moment of the electron.
• 1955 Vincent du Vigneaud wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955 Vincent du Vigneaud, for work on sulphur compounds, especially the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone.