Timeline Monday 10 December 2018

Events on Monday 10 December 2018 5

• 2018 Allison and Honjo win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018 James Allison and Tasuku Honjo, for cancer therapy by releasing the brakes on the immune system.
• 2018 Arnold, Smith and Winter win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 Frances Arnold for the directed evolution of enzymes, and George Smith and Gregory Winter for the phage display of peptides and antibodies.
• 2018 Ashkin, Mourou and Strickland win the Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 Arthur Ashkin for optical tweezers, and Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland for ultra-short high-intensity laser pulses. Ashkin, 96, became the oldest laureate.
• 2018 Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2018 Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
• 2018 Nordhaus and Romer win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2018 William Nordhaus for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis, and Paul Romer for technological innovation.