Timeline Thursday 10 December 2009

Events on Thursday 10 December 2009 5

• 2009 Blackburn, Greider and Szostak win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak, for discovering how telomeres and the enzyme telomerase protect chromosomes.
• 2009 Herta Müller wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 2009 The Romanian-born German writer Herta Müller, for her portrayal of the dispossessed.
• 2009 Kao, Boyle and Smith win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 Charles Kao for fibre-optic communication, and Willard Boyle and George Smith for the CCD image sensor.
• 2009 Ostrom and Williamson win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2009 Elinor Ostrom for her analysis of the governance of the commons — the first woman to win the economics prize — and Oliver Williamson for the boundaries of the firm.
• 2009 Ramakrishnan, Steitz and Yonath win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath, for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.