Scientists Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in forecasting climate change and comprehending complicated physical processes.
According to the press announcement, Manabe, 90, and Hasselmann, 89, was recognized for “physical modeling of Earth’s climate, measuring variability, and correctly projecting global warming.”
The other half of the prize went to 73-year-old Italian physicist Parisi of the Sapienza University of Rome for “discovering the interaction of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.”
During the 1960s, Manabe, a senior meteorologist at Princeton University, proved “how rising amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere led to increased temperatures at the surface of the Earth.” The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences noted in a statement that his work “established the groundwork for the creation of modern climate models.”
Hasselmann, who worked at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, “developed a model that ties together weather and climate” a decade later, solving the puzzle of “why climate models can be dependable despite weather being variable and chaotic.”
Parisi’s insights “allow us to comprehend and characterize a wide range of seemingly random complicated materials and events.” This is true not only in physics, but also in other fields like mathematics, biology, neurology, and machine learning, according to the academy.
