Timeline Sunday 10 December 1978

Events on Sunday 10 December 1978 6

• 1978 Arber, Nathans and Smith win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1978 Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans and Hamilton Smith, for discovering restriction enzymes and their use in molecular genetics.
• 1978 Herbert Simon wins the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1978 Herbert Simon, for research into decision-making within economic organisations.
• 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer, for storytelling rooted in Polish-Jewish tradition, written in Yiddish.
• 1978 Kapitsa, Penzias and Wilson win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 Pyotr Kapitsa for low-temperature physics, and Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson for discovering the cosmic microwave background.
• 1978 Peter Mitchell wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1978 Peter D. Mitchell, for his chemiosmotic theory of biological energy transfer.
• 1978 Sadat and Begin win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1978 Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, for the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel.