Timeline Friday 10 December 2010

Events on Friday 10 December 2010 6

• 2010 Diamond, Mortensen and Pissarides win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2010 Peter Diamond, Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides, for the analysis of markets with search frictions.
• 2010 Geim and Novoselov win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, for groundbreaking experiments with graphene.
• 2010 Heck, Negishi and Suzuki win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki, for palladium-catalysed cross couplings in organic synthesis.
• 2010 Liu Xiaobo wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2010 Liu Xiaobo, for his non-violent struggle for human rights in China. He was in prison and represented in Oslo by an empty chair.
• 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa, for his mapping of the structures of power.
• 2010 Robert Edwards wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 Robert Edwards, for developing in vitro fertilisation (IVF).