Lorenz, Edward Norton

Lorenz, Edward Norton
▪ 2009

      American meteorologist and mathematician

born May 23, 1917, West Hartford, Conn.

died April 16, 2008, Cambridge, Mass.
was considered the father of modern chaos theory. In his effort to predict the weather by using computers, Lorenz constructed a weather model that showed that almost any two nearby starting points, indicating the current weather, will quickly diverge trajectories and will quite frequently end up in different “lobes,” which correspond to calm or stormy weather. His model's twin-lobed shape gave rise to the somewhat facetious “butterfly effect” metaphor: the flapping of a butterfly's wings in China today may cause a tornado in Kansas tomorrow. For his groundbreaking work (his findings were published in 1963 in a paper entitled “Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow”), Lorenz shared the 1983 Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and was awarded the 1991 Kyoto Prize. He earned a master's degree (1943) and a doctorate (1948) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he served as a professor and head of the meteorology department until 1987, when he became emeritus professor.

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