Nobel Prize week day 2: Physics!
Click to viewThe Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi. Manabe and Hasselmann were each awarded a quarter of the prize for their work "for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming," and Parisi was awarded half for "the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales." Manabe is a senior meteorologist at Princeton University, Hasselmann is at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, and Parisi is a professor at at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
What does the prize split mean? It's about the money honey! You may not know that the Nobel Prize comes with a cash prize. This year's prize award is set at 10 million Swedish kronor, which is approximately $1,144,000 US, and the same amount as last year. You can see a history of the amounts since 1901 in this pdf document.
Tomorrow: Chemistry! OP is keeping her fingers crossed for a professor from her alma mater for his work in nanotechnology.
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I forgot to add a link to yesterday’s post for medicine/physiology!