Timeline Friday 10 December 1976

Events on Friday 10 December 1976 5

• 1976 Blumberg and Gajdusek win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976 Baruch Blumberg and Carleton Gajdusek, for discoveries on new mechanisms of infectious diseases, including hepatitis B and kuru.
• 1976 Milton Friedman wins the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1976 Milton Friedman, for consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and the complexity of stabilisation policy.
• 1976 Richter and Ting win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1976 Burton Richter and Samuel Ting, for discovering the J/psi particle.
• 1976 Saul Bellow wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1976 Saul Bellow, author of Herzog and Humboldts Gift, for human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture.
• 1976 William Lipscomb wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1976 William N. Lipscomb, for his studies on the structure of boranes and chemical bonding.