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Dr. Yoshiro Manabe, Nobel Prize winner in Physics, awarded the Order of Culture.
Noriyuki Hibiya, Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Science
Dr. Yoshiro Manabe
Dr. Yoshiro Manabe, the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, has been awarded the 2021 Order of Culture.
Dr. Manabe graduated from the Faculty of Science at Tohoku University in 1953, and received his Doctor of Science degree from the Graduate School of Science in 1958 for "An Integrated Study of Condensation Phenomena. He has continued his climate research as a Senior Research Scientist at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute of the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute and as a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, where he is still actively engaged in research at the age of 90.
In 1964, he developed an atmospheric general circulation model, the so-called "radiative-convective equilibrium model," which can theoretically reproduce the vertical structure of the earth's atmosphere, and in 1967, based on the simulation results, he developed the In 1969, in collaboration with Dr. Kirk Bryan, an ocean physicist, he developed the world's first "coupled atmosphere-ocean model" that combined atmospheric and oceanic circulation, clarifying the basic structure of the climate system. In addition to clarifying the basic structure of the climate system, he was the first in the world to predict global warming based on the results of simulations using this model. These results provided the theoretical basis for the 1990 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) First Assessment Report on global warming projections.
Dr. Manabe's achievements have been highly acclaimed internationally, and he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2015 and the Crafoord Prize in 2018. In 2021, Dr. Hasselmann will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with Dr. Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann of the Max-Planck-Institute for "their work in physically modeling the Earth's climate, quantifying its variability, and enabling reliable predictions of global warming. Dr. Hasselmann will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Dr. Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann of the Max-Planck-Institute in Germany.
We congratulate Dr. Hasselmann on this honor and wish him continued success in his future endeavors.
Faculty of Science News November 2021