Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Manabe_ Hasselmann and Parisi

The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to scientists Syukuro Manabe_ Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi_ for groundbreaking work in predicting climate change and for the understanding of complex physical systems.

Manabe_ 90_ and Hasselmann_ 89_ were jointly honored for "the physical modelling of Earth's climate_ quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming_" according to the press release from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Italian physicist Parisi_ 73_ claimed the other half of the award_ for "the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales."

The trio were announced as winners at a news conference Tuesday in Stockholm_ Sweden.

Manabe's work in the 1960s "laid the foundation for the development of current climate models_" the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement_ while Hasselmann "created a model that links together weather and climate" a decade later.

Parisi's discoveries "make it possible to understand and describe many different and apparently entirely random complex materials and phenomena." This is not only true for physics but also for other areas_ such as mathematics_ biology_ neuroscience and machine learning_ the academy added.