Rate My Professor Syukuro Manabe

Syukuro Manabe is a senior meteorologist in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1953, a Master of Arts degree in 1955, and a Doctor of Science degree in 1958, all from the University of Tokyo. After completing his doctorate, Manabe joined the U.S. Weather Bureau in 1958 and later worked at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of NOAA. He moved to Princeton in 1963 and became a member of the Princeton University faculty in 1968 as a lecturer with the rank of professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences. He has also held positions including director of the Global Warming Research Division at the Frontier Research System for Global Change in Japan from 1997 to 2001 and visiting research collaborator roles at Princeton. Manabe pioneered the development of three-dimensional models of the atmosphere and created the first global climate models in the 1960s, demonstrating the warming effects of increased carbon dioxide concentrations. His research has focused on the physical modeling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability, and predicting global warming. In 2021, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for these contributions. Manabe is the co-author of the book Beyond Global Warming, published in 2020. He has received numerous honors, including the Blue Planet Prize in 1992, the Roger Revelle Medal in 1993, the Crafoord Prize in 2018, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2015. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of several scientific societies. Manabe continues to serve as senior meteorologist at Princeton University.