Timeline Thursday 10 December 1964

Events on Thursday 10 December 1964 3

• 1964 Bloch and Lynen win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1964 Konrad Bloch and Feodor Lynen, for discoveries on the metabolism of cholesterol and fatty acids.
• 1964 Dorothy Hodgkin wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, for determining the structures of important biochemical substances, including penicillin and vitamin B12, by X-ray techniques.
• 1964 Townes, Basov and Prokhorov win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1964 Charles Townes, Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov, for the quantum electronics behind the maser and the laser.