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:
- Princeton University – Princeton, NJ, USA
Syukuro Manabe
Born: 1931-09-21 in Shingu, Ehime, Japan
Gender: male
Field: Japanese–American meteorologist and climatologist
Biography
Syukuro "Suki" Manabe is a Japanese–American physicist, meteorologist, and climatologist, who pioneered the use of computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi, for his contributions to the physical modeling of Earth's climate, quantifying its variability, and predictions of climate change.