Timeline Tuesday 10 December 2002

Events on Tuesday 10 December 2002 6

• 2002 Brenner, Horvitz and Sulston win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002 Sydney Brenner, Robert Horvitz and John Sulston, for discoveries on the genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death.
• 2002 Davis, Koshiba and Giacconi win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 Raymond Davis and Masatoshi Koshiba for detecting cosmic neutrinos, and Riccardo Giacconi for discovering cosmic X-ray sources.
• 2002 Fenn, Tanaka and Wüthrich win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 John Fenn and Koichi Tanaka for mass spectrometry of biological macromolecules, and Kurt Wüthrich for determining their structure by NMR.
• 2002 Imre Kertész wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 2002 Imre Kertész, author of Fatelessness, for writing on the individual against the barbarity of history.
• 2002 Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2002 Former US President Jimmy Carter, for decades of work for peaceful solutions, democracy and human rights.
• 2002 Kahneman and Smith win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2002 Daniel Kahneman for bringing psychology into economics, and Vernon Smith for laboratory experiments in economic analysis.