Manabe, Hasselmann, and Parisi win 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
One-half of the Nobel Prize worth $1.5 million was given in equal parts to Manabe and Hasselmann who worked on modeling Earth’s climate and predicting global warming in a reliable manner
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New Delhi, October 06: In the major development, this year the Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to the Scientists Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi for their work that helps in understanding complex physical systems such as the changing climate of Earth.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on October 5 announced the winners. "Complex systems are characterised by randomness and disorder and are difficult to understand," the Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement. "This year’s Prize recognises new methods for describing them and predicting their long-term behavior."
The prestigious prize is worth 10 million Swedish crowns($1.15 million). One-half of the Nobel Prize worth $1.5 million was given in equal parts to Manabe and Hasselmann who worked on modeling Earth’s climate and predicting global warming in a reliable manner. While the other half of the Nobel Prize went to Parisi for discovering the hidden rules behind random movements and swirls in gases or liquids.
Physics is the second Nobel to be awarded this week after Americans David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the prize for medicine on Monday for the discovery of receptors in the skin that sense temperature and touch. Last year, scientists Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez won the Nobel physics prize for their discoveries concerning black holes.