Climate work secures EU’s first Nobel Prize of 2021

Germany’s Klaus Hasselmann and Italy’s Giorgio Parisi share prize with US-based Syukuro Manabe

European scientists have claimed their first Nobel Prizes of the year, with Germany’s Klaus Hasselmann and Italy’s Giorgio Parisi both getting a share of the award for physics.

Hasselmann (pictured centre)), who works at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, splits one half of the 2021 physics Nobel Prize with Syukuro Manabe (pictured left) for their work on modelling Earth’s climate and predicting global warming. Manabe was born in Japan and currently works at Princeton University in the United States.