Edward N. Lorenz

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Edward N. Lorenz was an American mathematician and meteorologist best known as a pioneer of chaos theory and the originator of the concept popularly known as the "butterfly effect."

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instanceOf human
mathematician
meteorologist
scientist
academicDegree bachelor's degree in mathematics
doctorate in meteorology
master's degree in mathematics
awardReceived American Meteorological Society Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal NERFINISHED
Buys Ballot Medal NERFINISHED
Crafoord Prize in Geosciences NERFINISHED
Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1917-05-23
dateOfDeath 2008-04-16
educatedAt Dartmouth College
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
employer Massachusetts Institute of Technology
familyName Lorenz NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork atmospheric science
chaos theory
dynamical systems
mathematics
meteorology
fullName Edward Norton Lorenz NERFINISHED
givenName Edward
influenced development of modern chaos theory
nonlinear dynamics in meteorology
influencedBy classical mechanics
numerical weather prediction
knownFor Lorenz attractor NERFINISHED
Lorenz system NERFINISHED
formulation of the butterfly effect
pioneering chaos theory
work on deterministic nonperiodic flow
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
surface form: National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
nationality American
notableConcept butterfly effect NERFINISHED
sensitive dependence on initial conditions
notableWork Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow NERFINISHED
The Essence of Chaos NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth West Hartford, Connecticut, United States NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED
positionHeld head of the Department of Meteorology at MIT
professor of meteorology at MIT
residence Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED
workplace Massachusetts Institute of Technology NERFINISHED

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