Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 - Physics 2021

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

1. Syukuro Manabe
2. Klaus Hasselmann
3. Giorgio Parisi

Syukuro Manabe

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

• Born: 21 September 1931, Shingu, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
• Affiliation at the time of the award: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
• Prize motivation: "for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming."
• Prize share: 1/4

Klaus Hasselmann

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

• Born: 25 October 1931, Hamburg, Germany
• Affiliation at the time of the award: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
• Prize motivation: "for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming."
• Prize share: 1/4

Giorgio Parisi

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

• Born: 4 August 1948, Rome, Italy
• Affiliation at the time of the award: Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
• Prize motivation: "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales."
• Prize share: 1/2

Reason for given Physics Nobel Prize 2021:

• The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 was awarded "for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems" with one half jointly to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann "for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming" and the other half to Giorgio Parisi "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales."