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Syukuro Manabe

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Syukuro Manabe is the 287th most popular physicist (down from 260th in 2019), the 210th most popular biography from Japan (down from 172nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Syukuro Manabe ranks 287 out of 851. Before him are Valentin Ceaușescu, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Peter Mansfield, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Antoine César Becquerel, and Ash Carter. After him are Joseph Plateau, Charles Wheatstone, Ernest Walton, Lawrence M. Krauss, John Clauser, and Anne L'Huillier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Syukuro Manabe ranks 65. Before him are Jim Jones, Richard Rorty, Hiroto Muraoka, John Robert Schrieffer, Faten Hamama, and Ettore Scola. After him are Lucia Bosè, Arawa Kimura, Jean-Claude Carrière, Jacques Demy, Ken Takakura, and Alfred Brendel.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Syukuro Manabe ranks 210 out of 6,245. Before him are Shiro Azumi (null), Emperor Kaika (-208), Kazuyoshi Miura (1967), Hideki Shirakawa (1936), Sakichi Toyoda (1867), and Ashikaga Yoshiaki (1537). After him are Imagawa Yoshimoto (1519), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Taira no Kiyomori (1118), Hiroyuki Sanada (1960), Tsukasa Hosaka (1937), and Sesshū Tōyō (1420).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Japan

Among physicists born in Japan, Syukuro Manabe ranks 9. Before him are Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), Yoichiro Nambu (1921), Makoto Kobayashi (1944), Leo Esaki (1925), Toshihide Maskawa (1940), and Masatoshi Koshiba (1926). After him are Shuji Nakamura (1954), Hiroshi Amano (1960), Takaaki Kajita (1959), Yoshio Nishina (1890), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), and Toshiko Yuasa (1909).

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