Modeling Earth’s Climate: 2021 Nobel Prize Winners in Physics Announced

On October 5, the Nobel Committee in Stockholm announced the names of the 2021 physics prize winners. They were three scientists – Shukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselman and the Italian theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi for “innovative contributions to the human understanding of complex physical systems.” Manabe and Hasselman will receive one part of the award – for “physical modeling of the Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliable prediction of global warming.” Parisi received the second part of the awards for “the discovery of the interaction of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atoms to planetary scales.”

As a reminder, Nobel Week opened on October 4. Researchers from the United States David Julius and Ardem Pataputyan became the Nobel Prize winners in medicine and physiology in 2021. The prize was awarded for the “discovery of temperature receptors and tactile receptors.” Nobel laureates in chemistry will be announced on October 6.

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