Edward Norton Lorenz

Quotes

• “We see that each surface is really a pair of surfaces, so that, where they appear to merge, there are really four surfaces. Continuing this process for another circuit, we see that there are really eight surfaces etc and we finally conclude that there is an infinite complex of surfaces, each extremely close to one or the other of two merging surfaces.”
• “Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood, and there will undoubtedly always be many challenging problems to solve. nevertheless, I believed that some of the unsolved meteorological problems were more fundamental, and I felt confident that I could contribute to some of their solutions.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1917-05-23 ) May 23, 1917, West Hartford, Connecticut , U.S.

Died

April 16, 2008 (2008-04-16) (aged 90), Cambridge, Massachusetts , U.S.

Alma mater

Dartmouth College ( BA ) Harvard University ( MA ) Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MS , ScD )

Known for

Chaos theory Butterfly effect Logistic map Lorenz map Lorenz attractor Lorenz energy cycle Lorenz 96 model

Awards

Symons Gold Medal (1973) Crafoord Prize (1983) Kyoto Prize (1991) Roger Revelle Medal (1992) Buys Ballot Medal (2004) Lomonosov Gold Medal (2004)

Fields

Mathematics Meteorology

Institutions

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thesis

A Method of Applying the Hydrodynamic and Thermodynamic Equations to Atmospheric Models (1948)

Doctoral advisor

James Murdoch Austin

Doctoral students

Kevin E. Trenberth William D. Sellers

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