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Edward Lorenz

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(person)Edward Lorenz - A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.


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Chaos theory, first formulated by the French mathematician Henri Poincar[acute{e}] in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but developed and tested in the 1960s by the American meteorologist Edward Lorenz, maintains that long-range prediction is impossible.
 
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