Timeline Saturday 10 December 1966

Events on Saturday 10 December 1966 4

• 1966 Agnon and Nelly Sachs win the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1966 Shmuel Yosef Agnon, for narratives drawn from Jewish life, and the poet Nelly Sachs, for her writing on the fate of the Jewish people.
• 1966 Alfred Kastler wins the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1966 Alfred Kastler, for optical methods of studying resonances in atoms.
• 1966 Robert Mulliken wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1966 Robert S. Mulliken, for his work on chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the orbital method.
• 1966 Rous and Huggins win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1966 Peyton Rous for discovering tumour-inducing viruses, and Charles Huggins for hormonal treatment of prostate cancer.