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Edward Lorenz  

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  • Edward Norton Lorenz (1917–2008) pioneered chaos theory in the 1960s. He uncovered a phenomenon known as sensitive dependence on initial conditions, later dubbed the “butterfly effect.” This discovery played a large role in identifying the impossibility of predicting accurate, long-range trends in weather, among other phenomena. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change; Lorenz, Edward]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-DDV4PCDB-H

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