Timeline Wednesday 10 December 1986

Events on Wednesday 10 December 1986 6

• 1986 Cohen and Levi-Montalcini win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986 Stanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini, for discovering growth factors.
• 1986 Elie Wiesel wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1986 Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author of Night.
• 1986 Herschbach, Lee and Polanyi win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986 Dudley Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee and John Polanyi, for the dynamics of elementary chemical processes.
• 1986 James Buchanan wins the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1986 James Buchanan, for public choice theory — the economics of political decision-making.
• 1986 Ruska, Binnig and Rohrer win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1986 Ernst Ruska for the first electron microscope, and Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer for the scanning tunnelling microscope.
• 1986 Wole Soyinka wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1986 The Nigerian playwright and poet Wole Soyinka — the first African laureate in literature.