Timeline Monday 10 December 1956

Events on Monday 10 December 1956 4

• 1956 Cournand, Forssmann and Richards win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1956 André Cournand, Werner Forssmann and Dickinson Richards, for heart catheterisation and the study of changes in the circulatory system.
• 1956 Hinshelwood and Semenov win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956 Cyril Hinshelwood and Nikolay Semenov, for research into the mechanism of chemical reactions.
• 1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1956 The Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, author of Platero and I.
• 1956 Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, for research on semiconductors and the discovery of the transistor effect.