Timeline Sunday 10 December 1989

Events on Sunday 10 December 1989 6

• 1989 Altman and Cech win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989 Sidney Altman and Thomas Cech, for discovering the catalytic properties of RNA.
• 1989 Bishop and Varmus win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus, for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes.
• 1989 Camilo José Cela wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1989 The Spanish novelist Camilo José Cela.
• 1989 Ramsey, Dehmelt and Paul win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1989 Norman Ramsey for the method behind atomic clocks, and Hans Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul for the ion trap.
• 1989 The 14th Dalai Lama wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1989 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, for his non-violent struggle for the liberation of Tibet.
• 1989 Trygve Haavelmo wins the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1989 Trygve Haavelmo, for the probability theory foundations of econometrics.