On this day
On December 10, 1941, three days after bombing Guam, Japanese forces landed and Governor George McMillin surrendered the island. The 32-month occupation subjected the CHamoru people to forced labor, massacres, and internment until Guam's liberation on July 21, 1944.
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Har Gobind Khorana, an Indian-born American biochemist, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for helping crack the genetic code. (Shares Dec 10, Nobel Day, with Chandrasekhar's 1983 physics prize.)
Indian-born American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of the structure and evolution of stars, including the white-dwarf mass limit that bears his name. (Shares Dec 10, Nobel Day, with Khorana's 1968 prize.)
Physicist Steven Chu shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light; he later became the first Asian American US Secretary of Energy. (Shares Dec 10, Nobel Day, with Khorana and Chandrasekhar.)
Daniel C. Tsui, a Chinese American physicist at Princeton, shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect, presented at the December 10 ceremony in Stockholm.
Roger Y. Tsien, a Chinese American biochemist at UC San Diego, shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein (GFP), presented at the December 10 ceremony in Stockholm.