Edward Lorenz

Dead

Born: 5/23/1917 in West Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Died: 4/16/2008
Age: 90
Cause of death: cancer

Full name: Edward Norton Lorenz
Noted For: meterologist; described the "butterfly effect" - i.e. that the weather in one location could have been affected by something as minute as the flitting of a butterfly halfway across the world -- which was the first expression of "deterministic chaos" in modern science (1946).