2021 Nobel Prize Laureates in Physics — Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann

Abstract

One half (1/4 each) of the Nobel Prize was awarded to climatologists Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann “for the physical modelling of the Earth’s climate, quantitative variability and reliably predicting global warming”. This is not the first time the Nobel Committee has noted the problem of climate change. However, for the first time, scientists who laid the foundations of modern climatology were awarded directly.