Edward Norton Lorenz
Edward Norton Lorenz was an American mathematician and meteorologist who established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-aided atmospheric physics and meteorology. He founded modern chaos theory, a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions.
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- Born in
- West Hartford
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyDartmouth College
- Awards
- 🏆 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal🏆 Buys Ballot Medal🏆 Elliott Cresson Medal🏆 Lomonosov Gold Medal🏆 Roger Revelle Medal
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 James Murdoch Austin
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Alan Robock
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1917
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