Timeline Wednesday 10 December 2003

Events on Wednesday 10 December 2003 6

• 2003 Abrikosov, Ginzburg and Leggett win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 Alexei Abrikosov, Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony Leggett, for the theory of superconductors and superfluids.
• 2003 Agre and MacKinnon win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 Peter Agre for discovering water channels, and Roderick MacKinnon for the structure of ion channels in cell membranes.
• 2003 Engle and Granger win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2003 Robert Engle and Clive Granger, for methods of analysing economic time series.
• 2003 J. M. Coetzee wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 2003 J. M. Coetzee, author of Disgrace and Waiting for the Barbarians.
• 2003 Lauterbur and Mansfield win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003 Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield, for discoveries that made magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible.
• 2003 Shirin Ebadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2003 Shirin Ebadi, for her work for democracy and human rights, especially of women and children in Iran.