Oral history interview with Edward N. Lorenz, 2000 November 8.

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Oral history interview with Edward N. Lorenz, 2000 November 8.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80523745

Topics include: childhood and education; his military experience with meteorology; continued with meteorology instead of returning to mathematics after the war; numerical weather prediction and resistence to it; influence of Victor Starr; Jule Charney and Norman Phillips; resistence to modeling as a technique for exploring meteorological theory; shift to emphasis to modeling in graduate research; climate change; funding by the U.S. Air Force; interest in long range forecasting; shifts in climate as random events; Lorenz's role on American Meteorological Society Committee tasked with evaluating methods of Irving Krick; importance of Rossby's Stockholm Institute to meteorology; international nature of meteorology; visit to Russia; women who trained as meteorologists at the University of Chicago during WWII; current intermediate sized modeling project; involvement with history of meteorology.

Sound recording: 2 cassettes.Transcript: 34 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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