The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced that the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics is being awarded “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems”, with
one half jointly to
Syukuro Manabe of Princeton University, NJ, USA
and
Klaus Hasselmann of Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming
and the other half to
Giorgio Parisi of Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales
For more information, see the Nobel Prize press release “Physics for climate and other complex phenomena” at https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2021/press-release