▪︎Other winners include Albert Einstein in 1921, and Pierre and Marie Curie in 1903.
By Saphora Smith
Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics for contributions to the understanding of “complex physical systems” such as the Earth’s climate.
Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann were awarded jointly “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliability predicting global warming.”
The other half of the prize was awarded to Giorgio Parisi “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.”
The prestigious prize was established by the Swedish inventor and entrepreneur
Alfred Nobel who stipulated in his will that most of his estate should be converted into a fund and invested.
The income from the investments should then be distributed annually, in the form of prizes, “to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.”
The physics prize comes with a medal representing Nature in the form of a goddess resembling Isis, emerging from the clouds and holding in her arms a cornucopia. She is wearing a veil held up by the “Genius of Science.”
The physics prize has been awarded 114 times to 215 individuals between 1901 and 2020.
Last year, three scientists won the award for groundbreaking research into black holes, the spacetime phenomena that have long consumed the imagination of both scientists and fiction writers.
Other notable past winners include Albert Einstein who was awarded the physics prize in 1921, and Pierre and Marie Curie who won in 1903.
On Monday, the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to U.S.-based scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of receptors that allow humans to feel temperature and touch.
“This really unlocks one of the secrets of nature in terms of being one of our senses,” said Thomas Perlmann, secretary for the Nobel Assembly and the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.
Prizes in chemistry, literature, peace and economics will be announced in the coming days. (CBN NEWS)
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