April 24, 2008...1:26 pm
Famed scientist, from West Hartford, dies
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I had no idea that West Hartford was the hometown of the scientist who developed chaos theory until the man was dead and gone.
Edward N. Lorenz, an MIT meteorologist, wrote the influential 1972 paper “Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?”
The idea of chaos theory is that even tiny changes can lead to massive consequences - something that applied to weather, of course, but also most of life.
Lorenz was 90 at his death.
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May 13, 2008 at 11:46 am
Let’s keep Dr. Lorenz in mind for the next time we need a name for a building, neighborhood, or road.
Whatever happened to the guy who was the contender for the name of Bristow School? Seems like West Hartford is good at producing world-class scientists (look at Edward Morley) and we should think of some way to honor that.
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