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Edward Norton Lorenz | |
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| Born | May 23, 1917 |
| Died | April 16, 2008 (aged 90) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | A Method of Applying the Hydrodynamic and Thermodynamic Equations to Atmospheric Models (1948) |
| Doctoral advisor | James Murdoch Austin |
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Edward Norton Lorenz (May 23, 1917 – April 16, 2008) 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.[1][2] He is best known as the founder of modern chaos theory, a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions.[3]
His discovery of deterministic chaos "profoundly influenced a wide range of basic sciences and brought about one of the most dramatic changes in mankind's view of nature since Sir Isaac Newton," according to the committee that awarded him the 1991 Kyoto Prize for basic sciences in the field of earth and planetary sciences.[4]
- ^ Palmer, T. N. (2009). "Edward Norton Lorenz. 23 May 1917 -- 16 April 2008". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 55: 139–155. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2009.0004.
- ^ Tim Palmer (2008). "Edward Norton Lorenz". Physics Today. 61 (9): 81–82. Bibcode:2008PhT....61i..81P. doi:10.1063/1.2982132.
- ^ Motter A. E. and Campbell D. K. (2013). Chaos at fifty, Physics Today 66(5), 27-33.
- ^ Kenneth Chang (2008-04-17). "Edward N. Lorenz, a Meteorologist and a Father of Chaos Theory, Dies at 90". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-04-01.