Japan-born scientist Manabe, German, Italian win Nobel physics prize

Japanese-born American Syukuro Manabe, 90, has won a share in this year's Nobel Prize in physics for modeling the Earth's climate and reliably predicting global warming, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Tuesday, sharing the prize with two other scientists.Italian Giorgio Parisi, 73, was awarded half the prize, given "for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems," with the other half shared by Manabe, a senior meteorologist at Princeton University, and Klaus Hasselmann, 89, of Germany.Awarding the physics prize to research on climate change is unusual an…READ FULL ARTICLE