Timeline Thursday 10 December 1992

Events on Thursday 10 December 1992 4

• 1992 Derek Walcott wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 The Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott, author of Omeros.
• 1992 Fischer and Krebs win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1992 Edmond Fischer and Edwin Krebs, for discovering reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulating mechanism.
• 1992 Gary Becker wins the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1992 Gary Becker, for extending economic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour.
• 1992 Georges Charpak wins the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1992 Georges Charpak, for inventing particle detectors, especially the multiwire proportional chamber.