The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021
Awarded on: 2021-10-05
"for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming"
Affiliations:
- Max Planck Institute for Meteorology – Hamburg, Germany
Klaus Hasselmann
Born: 1931-10-25 in Hamburg, Germany
Gender: male
Field: German oceanographer and climate modeller
Biography
Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann is a German oceanographer and climate modeller. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hamburg and former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Syukuro Manabe and Giorgio Parisi.