Timeline Monday 10 December 2012

Events on Monday 10 December 2012 6

• 2012 Gurdon and Yamanaka win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, for discovering that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent stem cells.
• 2012 Haroche and Wineland win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 Serge Haroche and David Wineland, for measuring and manipulating individual quantum systems.
• 2012 Lefkowitz and Kobilka win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012 Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka, for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.
• 2012 Mo Yan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 Mo Yan, author of Red Sorghum, for hallucinatory realism merging folk tales, history and the present.
• 2012 Roth and Shapley win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2012 Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley, for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design.
• 2012 The European Union wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2012 The European Union, for six decades of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.