Timeline Friday 10 December 2004

Events on Friday 10 December 2004 6

• 2004 Axel and Buck win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004 Richard Axel and Linda Buck, for discovering odorant receptors and the organisation of the sense of smell.
• 2004 Ciechanover, Hershko and Rose win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose, for discovering ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
• 2004 Elfriede Jelinek wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 2004 The Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, author of The Piano Teacher.
• 2004 Gross, Politzer and Wilczek win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 David Gross, David Politzer and Frank Wilczek, for discovering asymptotic freedom in the strong interaction.
• 2004 Kydland and Prescott win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2004 Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott, for work on the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles.
• 2004 Wangari Maathai wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2004 Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement — the first African woman to win the Peace Prize.