Timeline Wednesday 10 December 1969

Events on Wednesday 10 December 1969 7

• 1969 Barton and Hassel win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1969 Derek Barton and Odd Hassel, for developing the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry.
• 1969 Delbrück, Hershey and Luria win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969 Max Delbrück, Alfred Hershey and Salvador Luria, for discoveries on the replication and genetic structure of viruses.
• 1969 Frisch and Tinbergen win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1969 Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen, for dynamic models for analysing economic processes — the first prize in economic sciences.
• 1969 Murray Gell-Mann wins the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1969 Murray Gell-Mann, for classifying elementary particles and their interactions — the theory behind quarks.
• 1969 – present Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Founded by the Swedish central bank in 1968 and first awarded in 1969 to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen.
• 1969 Samuel Beckett wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1969 Samuel Beckett, author of Waiting for Godot, for writing that finds new forms for the destitution of modern man.
• 1969 The International Labour Organization wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1969 The International Labour Organization, on its 50th anniversary.