Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a renowned climate scientist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the Crafoord Prize — one of the world’s most prestigious science awards. Ramanathan is the second researcher from Scripps Oceanography to win the Crafoord Prize, the first being oceanographer Walter Munk, awarded in 2010. The Crafoord Prize is awarded in partnership between the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Crafoord Foundation in Lund, Sweden. The prize fund was established in 1980 through a donation to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from Anna-Greta and Holger Crafoord. – Adapted from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences