Syukuro Manabe | |
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![]() Manabe in 2018 | |
Born | Shinritsu, Uma, Ehime, Japan | 21 September 1931
Education | University of Tokyo (BA, MA, DSc) |
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Fields | Meteorology, climatology, climate variability and change, computer simulation ![]() |
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Doctoral students | Isaac Held, Kenneth Bowman, Alex Hall |
Syukuro "Suki" Manabe (真鍋 淑郎, Manabe Shukurō, born 21 September 1931) is a Japanese–American physicist, meteorologist, and climatologist, who pioneered the use of computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi, for his contributions to the physical modeling of Earth's climate, quantifying its variability, and predictions of climate change.