Timeline Monday 10 December 1973

Events on Monday 10 December 1973 5

• 1973 Esaki, Giaever and Josephson win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever for tunnelling in semiconductors and superconductors, and Brian Josephson for the Josephson effects.
• 1973 Fischer and Wilkinson win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973 Ernst Otto Fischer and Geoffrey Wilkinson, for their work on organometallic sandwich compounds.
• 1973 Patrick White wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1973 Patrick White, for introducing a new continent into literature — the first Australian laureate.
• 1973 Wassily Leontief wins the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1973 Wassily Leontief, for the input-output method.
• 1973 von Frisch, Lorenz and Tinbergen win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973 Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen, for discoveries on individual and social behaviour patterns in animals.