Nobel Prize In Physics Awarded To Scientists For Earth¡¯s Climate Breakthrough

Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi on Tuesday have been awarded the Nobel Prize in the field of Physics for climate models and the understanding of physical systems.

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According to the Nobel Committee, Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann laid the foundation of our knowledge of Earth¡¯s climate and how humanity influences it. They added that Giorgio Parisi was rewarded for his revolutionary contributions to the theory of disordered materials and random processes.

Thors Hans Hansson, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics said in a statement, "The discoveries being recognised this year demonstrate that our knowledge about the climate rests on a solid scientific foundation, based on rigorous analysis of observations. This year¡¯s Laureates have all contributed to us gaining deeper insight into the properties and evolution of complex physical systems."

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Syukuro Manabe

Syukuro Manabe, also commonly known as ¡®Suki¡¯ is a Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist who pioneered in using computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations.

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Born in 1931, he completed his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1958 and then moved to the US where he worked at the General Circulation Research Section of the U.S. Weather Bureau (currently called the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of NOAA) until 1997. Currently, he serves as the senior meteorologist at Princeton University.

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Klaus Hasselmann

Klaus Hasselmann, born in October 1931 is a German oceanographer and climate modeller, most popularly known for his Hasselmann Model. He graduated in 1955 from the University of Hamburg, Physics and Mathematics, followed by a PhD in Physics from the University of G?ttingen and Max Planck Institute of Fluid Dynamics.

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He was the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. Currently, he is the Vice-Chairman of the European Climate Forum

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Giorgio Parisi

Giorgio Parisi was born in August 1948 in Rome, Italy. He received his degree from the University of Rome la Sapienza in 1970. From 1971 to 1980 he also served as a researcher at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, followed by a visiting scientist at the Columbia University from 1973 to 1974, at Institut des Hautes ?tudes Scientifiques from 1976 to 1977, and ?cole Normale Sup¨¦rieure from 1977 to 1978. Currently, he is the professor of Quantum Theories at the Sapienza University of Rome.

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Manabe and Hasselmann were awarded one half of the prize for their research on climate models, whereas Parisi was awarded the other half for his work on the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems.

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