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Nature Geoscience 1, 346 (1 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo211

Edward Lorenz (1917|[ndash]|2008): Chaotic beginnings

Richard Webb

Serendipity is a term often misused, but if anyone in modern science could lay claim to it, it was Edward Lorenz. A meteorologist by training, he founded the entire discipline of chaos theory by accident — while attempting to improve a weather forecast.