Timeline Tuesday 10 December 1957

Events on Tuesday 10 December 1957 5

• 1957 Albert Camus wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 Albert Camus, author of The Stranger and The Plague, for illuminating the problems of the human conscience.
• 1957 Alexander Todd wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1957 Alexander Todd, for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide coenzymes.
• 1957 Daniel Bovet wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1957 Daniel Bovet, for synthetic compounds that block substances in the body, including the first antihistamines and muscle relaxants.
• 1957 Lester Pearson wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1957 Lester Pearson, for the UN peacekeeping force that ended the Suez Crisis.
• 1957 Yang and Lee win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1957 Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee, for showing that parity is not conserved in weak interactions.