Timeline Thursday 10 December 1959

Events on Thursday 10 December 1959 5

• 1959 Jaroslav Heyrovský wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1959 Jaroslav Heyrovský, for discovering and developing polarographic analysis.
• 1959 Ochoa and Kornberg win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 Severo Ochoa and Arthur Kornberg, for discovering how RNA and DNA are synthesised.
• 1959 Philip Noel-Baker wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1959 Philip Noel-Baker, campaigner for international disarmament.
• 1959 Salvatore Quasimodo wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1959 The Italian poet Salvatore Quasimodo, for lyrical poetry expressing the tragic experience of life in his time.
• 1959 Segrè and Chamberlain win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1959 Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain, for discovering the antiproton.