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Climate modellers and theorist of complex systems share physics Nobel

Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi split the award for their work on complex systems — including modelling Earth’s climate and global warming.
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Three researchers have won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on describing complex physical systems — including foundational research that created a pioneering mathematical model of Earth’s climate and predicted that increasing levels of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere would raise global temperatures.

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Nature 598, 246-247 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02703-3

Additional reporting by Quirin Schiermeier, Tosin Thompson and Emma Stoye.

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