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Dr. Yoshiro Manabe, Ph.

D. in Geophysics from the Department of Physics* , Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo in 1953. D. in 1958 from the University of Tokyo. After working at the U.S. Weather Bureau (1958) and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute (1963), he became a Visiting Professor and Lecturer in the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Program at Princeton University in 1968 (until 1997). He has been a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo, and Director of the Frontier Research System for Global Change since 2005, and will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2021.　* Reference ": The University of Tokyo Centennial History, Faculties, Graduate Schools, and Institutes" (researched by the Editorial Board of Faculty of Science News)

Dr. Yoshiro Manabe will be awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics. I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to him. Dr. Manabe graduated from the Faculty of Science at The University of Tokyo in 1953 and received his Ph. Immediately after that, he moved to the U.S., where he worked tirelessly on climate research using computer simulations at the U.S. Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute. At that time, computers were in their infancy and it was becoming possible to handle complex phenomena by numerical simulation. Dr. Manabe was the first in the world to develop a model that combined an atmospheric general circulation model with an ocean general circulation model, making full use of computer simulations, and he has conducted a number of pioneering studies, in particular, clarifying the impact of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration on global warming.

The reason for the Nobel Prize this time is "the prediction of global warming by modeling the global climate system as a complex system. With global environmental issues becoming a major challenge for human society, it is significant that the results of his research on climate model development have been highly acclaimed. Dr. Manabe also actively mentored younger researchers, serving as Visiting Professor at Princeton University and Director of the Global Warming Prediction Research Area of the Frontier Research System for Global Change, a joint project of the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) and the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC). We would like to extend our sincere congratulations to a senior student of the Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, for receiving this award.

Congratulations to Dr. Yoshiro Manabe for winning the Nobel Prize
Eiichi Tajika ( Head of Department of Earth and Planetary Science / Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Science)

It has been decided that Dr. Yoshiro Manabe will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. On behalf of the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, I would like to extend our congratulations. It is rare that the Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to a researcher in the field of geophysics, and this is the first time that it has been awarded to a researcher in meteorology/climatology, so this is unexpected and very exciting news.

Dr. Manabe is truly a pioneer in global warming research, having pioneered research on the effects of atmospheric carbon dioxide on the greenhouse effect in the 1960s, long before global warming became an issue. D. degree in 1958 from the Department of Earth and Planetary Physics and the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, the predecessor of the current Department of Physics and Department of Planetary Science, and the Graduate School of Mathematics and Geophysics. All of us in the Department are very pleased and proud that the first Nobel laureate has come from our Department.

We would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Manabe on winning the Nobel Prize.

Faculty of Science News, November 2021

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