Timeline Saturday 10 December 1988

Events on Saturday 10 December 1988 6

• 1988 Black, Elion and Hitchings win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988 James Black, Gertrude Elion and George Hitchings, for important principles of drug treatment.
• 1988 Deisenhofer, Huber and Michel win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988 Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber and Hartmut Michel, for the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre.
• 1988 Lederman, Schwartz and Steinberger win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1988 Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for the neutrino beam method and the discovery of the muon neutrino.
• 1988 Maurice Allais wins the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1988 Maurice Allais, for the theory of markets and the efficient use of resources.
• 1988 Naguib Mahfouz wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1988 Naguib Mahfouz, author of the Cairo Trilogy — the first Arabic-language laureate.
• 1988 The UN Peacekeeping Forces win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1988 The United Nations Peacekeeping Forces.