Timeline Sunday 10 December 1972

Events on Sunday 10 December 1972 5

• 1972 Anfinsen, Moore and Stein win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972 Christian Anfinsen, Stanford Moore and William Stein, for their work on ribonuclease and the link between structure and activity.
• 1972 Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1972 John Bardeen, Leon Cooper and Robert Schrieffer, for the BCS theory of superconductivity — Bardeen's second physics prize.
• 1972 Edelman and Porter win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1972 Gerald Edelman and Rodney Porter, for discovering the chemical structure of antibodies.
• 1972 Heinrich Böll wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1972 Heinrich Böll, for writing that renewed German literature after the war.
• 1972 Hicks and Arrow win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1972 John Hicks and Kenneth Arrow, for general equilibrium theory and welfare theory.