# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-norton-lorenz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:31:31.482Z

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name: "Edward Norton Lorenz"
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description: "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."
tagline: "American mathematician and meteorologist (1917–2008)"
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birthDate: "1917-05-23"
deathDate: "2008-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump