Timeline Thursday 10 December 1981

Events on Thursday 10 December 1981 6

• 1981 Bloembergen, Schawlow and Siegbahn win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1981 Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow for laser spectroscopy, and Kai Siegbahn for high-resolution electron spectroscopy.
• 1981 Elias Canetti wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 Elias Canetti, author of Auto-da-Fé and Crowds and Power.
• 1981 Fukui and Hoffmann win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981 Kenichi Fukui and Roald Hoffmann, for their theories on the course of chemical reactions.
• 1981 James Tobin wins the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1981 James Tobin, for his analysis of financial markets and their relation to spending, employment and prices.
• 1981 Sperry, Hubel and Wiesel win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981 Roger Sperry for the specialisation of the brain hemispheres, and David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel for how the visual system processes information.
• 1981 The UN High Commissioner for Refugees wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1981 The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees — its second Peace Prize, for work with refugees in Asia and Africa.