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Events on Saturday 10 December 2016 5
2016Hart and Holmström win the Nobel Prize in Economic SciencesNobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2016Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström, for contributions to contract theory.
2016Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace PrizeNobel Peace Prize 2016Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, for his efforts to end more than 50 years of civil war.
2016Sauvage, Stoddart and Feringa win the Nobel Prize in ChemistryNobel Prize in Chemistry 2016Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart and Ben Feringa, for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.
2016Thouless, Haldane and Kosterlitz win the Nobel Prize in PhysicsNobel Prize in Physics 2016David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, for topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
2016Yoshinori Ohsumi wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016Yoshinori Ohsumi, for discovering the mechanisms of autophagy.