Timeline Sunday 10 December 1961

Events on Sunday 10 December 1961 5

• 1961 Dag Hammarskjöld wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1961 UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, awarded posthumously after his death in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia.
• 1961 Georg von Békésy wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1961 Georg von Békésy, for discovering how sound stimulates the cochlea.
• 1961 Hofstadter and Mössbauer win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1961 Robert Hofstadter for electron scattering in atomic nuclei, and Rudolf Mössbauer for the Mössbauer effect.
• 1961 Ivo Andrić wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1961 Ivo Andrić, author of The Bridge on the Drina.
• 1961 Melvin Calvin wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961 Melvin Calvin, for research on how plants assimilate carbon dioxide — the Calvin cycle.