Timeline Wednesday 10 December 1958

Events on Wednesday 10 December 1958 4

• 1958 Beadle, Tatum and Lederberg win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958 George Beadle and Edward Tatum for showing that genes regulate chemical events, and Joshua Lederberg for genetic recombination in bacteria.
• 1958 Cherenkov, Frank and Tamm win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1958 Pavel Cherenkov, Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm, for discovering and explaining the Cherenkov effect.
• 1958 Frederick Sanger wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958 Frederick Sanger, for his work on the structure of proteins, especially insulin — the first of his two chemistry prizes.
• 1958 Georges Pire wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1958 The Dominican friar Georges Pire, for his work for refugees.