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What makes 2021 Physics Nobel Prize special?

Waqar Ahmed | The Productivity Science

Physics Noble Prize Laureates

This year Physics Noble Prize has been divided among three Scientists:

  • Syukoro Manabe (USA)
  • Klaus Hasselmann (Germany)
  • Giorgio Parisi (Italy)

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences committee jointly decided to award these three scientists with the Noble Prize in Physics. The work of the three Laureates is different in various aspects however they share monotony in solving the complex problems of the world with the help of physics.

The work of two Laureates Syukoro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann is related to climate change, how it affects the world today following the continuing burning of greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. They have designed computer models that help measure the earth’s climate and predict how far the environment would be increasing because of the rising global warming.

Manabe in his research discovered that if you double the CO2 in the atmosphere, the temperature would increase by 2 degrees Celsius. And Klaus made an analogy between the rapidly varying weather and slowly varying climate. Here he explains his work with the help of Einstein’s Brownian motion which says, the rapid weather fluctuations influence climate.

Klaus further adds that the weather on the time scale of days influences the oceans on the time scale of years.

The third Noble Laureate Giorgio Parisi has a little different contribution to physics. He won the prize as a result of successfully presenting the evidence in the physics field which help understand the difficult and chaotic phenomenon. His work is applicable to varying fields, such as biology, mathematics, neuroscience, and the growing machine learning processes.

Why does this Noble Prize matter?

The biggest challenge this planet faces today is climate change. The Paris climate accord 2015 signed by 196 parties, maneuvered a climate policy to restrict the rising temperature at 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100 years. However, the limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius is going to be surpassed at the end of this decade in 2030, almost 70 years earlier than predicted in the accord. 

This award honors the Climate Scientists whose work has led to the discovery of how carbon dioxide will change the scale of the environment in the coming few years. If the climate is not tackled today, it will have a grieving impact in the future and might not be possible for anyone to retreat anytime soon. This Noble prize is also important because it has been announced before the United Nation’s forthcoming Climate Conference in November 2021.

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