Daily Current Affairs / Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 winners: Manabe, Hasselmann, and Parisi
Category : Awards Published on: October 06 2021
· The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 was awarded to Japanese-American Syukuro Manabe, Italian Giorgio Parisi, and German Klaus Hasselmann for their contributions to the understanding of complex physical systems such as Earth's changing climate.
· Giorgio Parisi is an Italian theoretical physicist who studies quantum field theory, complex systems, and statistical mechanics.
· Syukuro Manabe is a Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist, Klaus Hasselmann is a German oceanographer and climate modeler.
· Manabe and Hasselmann shared half of the Nobel Prize, worth $1.5 million (10 million Swedish crowns), for their work on accurately modeling Earth's climate and predicting global warming.
· Parisi received the other half of the Nobel Prize for finding the hidden principles that govern random movements and swirls in gases and liquids.
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