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Also known as Shukurō Manabe, Shukuro Manabe

Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist (1931–)

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Syukuro Manabe is a Japanese and American climatologist and meteorologist. He was born on September 21, 1931, and received his education at the University of Tokyo. His professional career included employment at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Princeton University. Manabe’s fields of work encompass meteorology, climatology, climate change, and computer simulation, with a notable contribution being the general circulation model. He has expressed an interest in physics.

Manabe is a member of the Academia Europaea, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Society of Canada. He has received several awards, including the Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, the Volvo Environment Prize, the Blue Planet Prize, and the William Bowie Medal. Additionally, he is recognized in the Nobel Laureates and Nobel Physics collections. His doctoral student was Isaac Held. He speaks and writes in English and Japanese.

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  • Beyond Global Warming

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Key facts

Born
( 1931-09-21 ) 21 September 1931 (age 94) , Shinritsu , Uma , Ehime , Japan
Education
University of Tokyo ( BA , MA , DSc )
Occupation
Meteorologist
Awards
Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal (1992) Blue Planet Prize (1992) Roger Revelle Medal (1993) Asahi Prize (1995) Volvo Environment Prize (1997) William Bowie Medal (2010) Franklin Institute Awards (2015) Crafoord Prize (2018) Nobel Prize in Physics (2021)
Fields
Meteorology , climatology , climate change , computer simulation
Institutions
Princeton University Nagoya University
Doctoral students
Isaac Held , Kenneth Bowman, Alex Hall

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics2021

    for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Occupation
meteorologist
Languages spoken
Japanese
Native language
Japanese
Field of work
computer simulation
Image
Crafoord Prize EM1B0732 (42329290061).jpg
Residence
Egypt
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date of birth
1931-09-21
Commons category
Syukuro Manabe
name in native language
真鍋 淑郎
writing language
Japanese
name in kana
まなべ しゅくろう
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WikiProject Climate change
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interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

Syukuro "Suki" Manabe (真鍋 淑郎, Manabe Shukurō; born 21 September 1931) is a Japanese–American physicist, meteorologist, and climatologist, who pioneered the use of computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi, for his contributions to the physical modeling of Earth's climate, quantifying its variability, and predictions of climate change.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Syukuro Manabe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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