Timeline Tuesday 10 December 1968

Events on Tuesday 10 December 1968 5

• 1968 Holley, Khorana and Nirenberg win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968 Robert Holley, Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall Nirenberg, for interpreting the genetic code and its role in protein synthesis.
• 1968 Lars Onsager wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968 Lars Onsager, for the reciprocal relations fundamental to the thermodynamics of irreversible processes.
• 1968 Luis Alvarez wins the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1968 Luis Alvarez, for discovering many resonance states of elementary particles with the hydrogen bubble chamber.
• 1968 René Cassin wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1968 René Cassin, a principal author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• 1968 Yasunari Kawabata wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1968 Yasunari Kawabata, author of Snow Country — the first Japanese literature laureate.