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    <title>Edward N. Lorenz papers, circa 1895-2009 (bulk 1942-1991)</title>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, speeches, presentations, writings, subject files, military records, printed matter, computer printouts, computer graphics, photographs, and other papers documenting Lorenz's career as a professor of meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his discovery of deterministic chaos.  Subjects include chaos theory, computer programming for weather and climate modeling, long-range weather prediction, and numerically based weather forecasting.  Includes material pertaining to his service as a weather forecaster in the U.S. Army Air Forces.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Hidetoshi Arakawa, Maurice L. Blackmon, William Blumen, Glenn W. Brier, E.V. Chelam, Richard A. Craig, D.A. Davies, Thomas Vivian Davies, John A. Dutton, Isadore Enger, John Firor, W. Lawrence Gates, Michael Ghil, James Gleick, F. Kenneth Hare, Isaac M. Held, Henry G. Houghton, Charles L. Jordan, Elizabeth A. Kelley, William H. Klein, E.B. Kraus, Cecil E. Leith, Gordon J. MacDonald, Thomas F. Malone, Yale Mintz, H. Stuart Muench, Jack Nordø, José Pinto Peixoto,  S.I. Rasool, Walter Orr Roberts, P.L. Schereschewsky, William D. Sellers, Bernard Shorr, J. Smagorinsky, Kenneth C. Spengler, Philip Duncan Thompson, Kevin E. Trenberth, and James A. Yorke.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>Audio and video recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.</note>
  <note>Some photographic slides and posters transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Mathematician, meteorologist, and educator.  Full name: Edward Norton Lorenz.  Born 1917; died 2008.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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