Meterologist who discovered
a chaotic attractor in a model of a
weather system.
The attractor now bears his name. For information on the
system and an applet showing you the attractor look at
http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~mcc/chaos_new/Lorenz.html
At least that site was up as of Tue Jul 18 22:37:46 EDT 2000.