Timeline Saturday 10 December 1983

Events on Saturday 10 December 1983 5

• 1983 Barbara McClintock wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983 Barbara McClintock, for discovering mobile genetic elements — jumping genes.
• 1983 Chandrasekhar and Fowler win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1983 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar for the physics of stellar structure and evolution, and William Fowler for how stars form the chemical elements.
• 1983 Gérard Debreu wins the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1983 Gérard Debreu, for new analytical methods in economic theory and his reformulation of general equilibrium theory.
• 1983 Henry Taube wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1983 Henry Taube, for his work on electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes.
• 1983 William Golding wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1983 William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies.