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Events on Friday 10 December 2021 6
2021Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel Prize in LiteratureNobel Prize in Literature 2021The Zanzibar-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his writing on colonialism and the fate of the refugee.
2021Card, Angrist and Imbens win the Nobel Prize in Economic SciencesNobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2021David Card for empirical contributions to labour economics, and Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens for the analysis of causal relationships.
2021Julius and Patapoutian win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, for discovering receptors for temperature and touch.
2021List and MacMillan win the Nobel Prize in ChemistryNobel Prize in Chemistry 2021Benjamin List and David MacMillan, for developing asymmetric organocatalysis.
2021Manabe, Hasselmann and Parisi win the Nobel Prize in PhysicsNobel Prize in Physics 2021Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for modelling Earth's climate and predicting global warming, and Giorgio Parisi for disorder and fluctuations in physical systems.
2021Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win the Nobel Peace PrizeNobel Peace Prize 2021The journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, for safeguarding freedom of expression.