27/08/1997
1997 Volvo Environment Prize to Dr. S. Manabe and Dr. V. Ramanathan
The 1997 Volvo Environment Prize has been awarded jointly to Dr. Syukuro Manabe, Japan, and Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, India (currently a U.S. citizen), for their pioneering work related to the so called greenhouse effect. Their research, of outstanding importance to humanity, has concentrated on how to predict the nature of future changes in the world climate.