Timeline Thursday 10 December 1998

Events on Thursday 10 December 1998 6

• 1998 Amartya Sen wins the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1998 Amartya Sen, for his contributions to welfare economics.
• 1998 Furchgott, Ignarro and Murad win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998 Robert Furchgott, Louis Ignarro and Ferid Murad, for discovering nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system.
• 1998 John Hume and David Trimble win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1998 John Hume and David Trimble, for the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland.
• 1998 José Saramago wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 1998 José Saramago, author of Blindness — the first Portuguese-language laureate.
• 1998 Kohn and Pople win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998 Walter Kohn for density-functional theory, and John Pople for computational methods in quantum chemistry.
• 1998 Laughlin, Störmer and Tsui win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 1998 Robert Laughlin, Horst Störmer and Daniel Tsui, for a new quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations.