Syukuro Manabe

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Syukuro Manabe

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Syukuro Manabe
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

Born: 21 September 1931, Shingu, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Affiliation at the time of the award: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

Prize motivation: "for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming."

Prize share: 1/4

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