Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi wins Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics on October 05, 2021. The Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to scientists from Japan, Germany, and Italy. Scientists Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics for their “groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems”. Three Laureates shares the 2021 award for groundbreaking contributions and studies of chaotic and apparently random phenomena.

While one half of the award has been given jointly to US-based Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann of Germany “for the physical modeling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”. The other half of the award has been conferred to Giorgio Parisi from Italy “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.”

The prestigious prize is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.15 million) and is given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.