New Delhi: Three Scientists from Japan, Italy, and Germany have shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, 2021, for their work on climate change and fluctuations in physical systems, media reported on Tuesday.
The Nobel Committee awarded the prestigious Prize to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for their work on “the physical modeling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming.”
According to the media reports, they awarded the second half of the Prize to Giorgio Parisi for “the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.”
Goran Hansson, Secretary-General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announced this year’s winners on Tuesday.
The Prize carries a gold medal and 10 million Swedish kronor (over $1.14 million). The Prize money comes from a bequest left by its creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1895.
On Monday, the Nobel Committee had awarded the Prize in physiology or medicine to American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their pioneering discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch.
The Committee will announce prizes for outstanding work in the fields of chemistry, literature, peace, and economics in the next few days.
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