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🇯🇵 Syukuro Manabe
🌍 Modeling the Future of Climate: Syukuro Manabe, a Japanese-American climatologist, pioneered the use of computer models to simulate Earth’s climate. In the 1960s, at Princeton, he co-developed the first numerical models that demonstrated how rising carbon dioxide leads to global warming.
His research laid the foundation for modern climate science and continues to underpin today’s predictions of climate change. In 2021, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking work in climate modeling and complex systems.
👉 Lesson Learned: Manabe’s career shows how long-term scientific persistence can shape global policy. Rigorous models, tested over decades, can turn abstract theory into hard evidence that guides nations in confronting existential challenges.
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