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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 10, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Vintage Chicago Tribune: Nobel Prize winners with Chicago connections

Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 62 degrees (1879)

Low temperature: Minus 8 degrees (1978)

Precipitation: 2.18 inches (1971)

Snowfall: 10.9 inches (1934)

1907: Albert A. Michelson , the first head of the physics department at the University of Chicago, won the first Nobel Prize ever presented to an American (though he was born in Prussia) in science. The U.S. Naval Academy graduate measured the speed of light with unsurpassed accuracy and built se

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