Lorenz
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Lorenz is an originally German name derived from the Roman surname, Laurentius
Laurentius
Laurentius is a Latin-language surname and means man from Laurentum or laurelled. It can also be used as a first name .Laurentius may refer to:In Early Christianity:...

, which mean "from Laurentum
Laurentum
Laurentum was an ancient Roman city of Latium situated between Ostia and Lavinium, on the west coast of the Italian Peninsula southwest of Rome. Roman writers regarded it as the original capital of the Latins, before Lavinium assumed that role after the death of King Latinus...

".

Lorenz may refer to:

Music

  • Christian "Flake" Lorenz
    Christian Lorenz
    Christian "Flake" Lorenz is a German musician, notable as the keyboardist for the Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein. He is also known for his role in the band Feeling B.-Early years:...

    , a German musician
  • Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz "Larry" Milton Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart...

    , the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart
  • Max Lorenz, German tenor
  • Alfred Lorenz
    Alfred Lorenz
    Alfred Lorenz was an Austrian-German conductor, composer, and musical analyst. His principal work is the four-volume Das Geheimnis der Form bei Richard Wagner, which attempts to comprehensively analyze some of Richard Wagner's best-known operas...

    , Austrian-German musical analyst

Mathematics

  • Edward Norton Lorenz
    Edward Norton Lorenz
    Edward Norton Lorenz was an American mathematician and meteorologist, and a pioneer of chaos theory. He discovered the strange attractor notion and coined the term butterfly effect.-Biography:...

    , (1917–2008), American mathematician, meteorologist, and MIT professor
    • Lorenz attractor
      Lorenz attractor
      The Lorenz attractor, named for Edward N. Lorenz, is an example of a non-linear dynamic system corresponding to the long-term behavior of the Lorenz oscillator. The Lorenz oscillator is a 3-dimensional dynamical system that exhibits chaotic flow, noted for its lemniscate shape...

      , a butterfly-shaped chaotic map
  • Max O. Lorenz
    Max O. Lorenz
    Max Otto Lorenz was an American economist who developed the Lorenz curve in 1905 to describe income inequalities. He published this paper while a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison...

    , (1880–1962), an American economist
    • Lorenz curve
      Lorenz curve
      In economics, the Lorenz curve is a graphical representation of the cumulative distribution function of the empirical probability distribution of wealth; it is a graph showing the proportion of the distribution assumed by the bottom y% of the values...

      , an income distribution curve
  • Ludvig Lorenz, (1829–1891), a Danish mathematician and physicist
    • Lorenz gauge condition
      Lorenz gauge condition
      In electromagnetism, the Lorenz gauge or Lorenz gauge condition is a partial gauge fixing of the electromagnetic vector potential. The condition is that \partial_\mu A^\mu=0...

      , a general method of calculation of time-dependent electromagnetic fields in which retarded potentials are introduced
  • Lorenz cipher
    Lorenz cipher
    The Lorenz SZ40, SZ42A and SZ42B were German rotor cipher machines used by the German Army during World War II. They were developed by C. Lorenz AG in Berlin. They implemented a Vernam stream cipher...

    , a German cryptography machine, named after the company of German businessman Carl Lorenz

Medicine

  • William Lorenz
    William Lorenz
    William F. Lorenz, M.D. was a Major in the United States Army Medical Corps during World War I. He was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal for his combat actions in France...

    , M.D. (1882–1958), American physician, psychiatrist, and U.S. Army medical officer in World War I

Other

  • Adolf Lorenz
    Adolf Lorenz
    Adolf Lorenz was an Austrian orthopedic surgeon who was a native of Weidenau, Austrian Silesia . He studied medicine at the University of Vienna and subsequently worked as an assistant to surgeon Eduard Albert in Vienna. In 1901 he was one of the founders of the German Society of Orthopaedic...

     (1854–1946), Austrian surgeon
  • Friedrich Lorenz
    Friedrich Lorenz
    Friedrich Lorenz was a Catholic priest and a member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.-Life:...

     (1897–1944), German Catholic priest
  • Konrad Lorenz
    Konrad Lorenz
    Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch...

     (1903–1989), Austrian zoologist and co-Founder of Ethology
    Ethology
    Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior, and a sub-topic of zoology....

    , Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize
    The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

     in 1973
  • Lee Lorenz
    Lee Lorenz
    Lee Lorenz is an American cartoonist, most notable for his work in The New Yorker.Lorenz is an alumnus of Carnegie Tech and Pratt Institute. His first published cartoon appeared in Colliers in 1956, and two years later he became a contract contributor to The New Yorker, which has published more...

    , American cartoonist
  • Lorenz Böhler
    Lorenz Böhler
    Lorenz Böhler was an Austrian physician and famous surgeon.Böhler is most notable as one of the—or even the—creator of modern accident surgery. He was the head of the AUVA-Hospital in Vienna, Brigittenau, that was later named after him: Lorenz-Böhler-Unfallkrankenhaus...

    , Austrian trauma surgeon
  • General Stephen R. Lorenz
    Stephen R. Lorenz
    General Stephen R. Lorenz, USAF was the 29th Commander, Air Education and Training Command , Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. As commander, he was responsible for the recruiting, training and education of all US Airmen. His command included the Air Force Recruiting Service, two numbered air forces...

    , Commander, Air Education and Training Command, United States Air Force
  • Prince Lorenz, Archduke of Austria-Este, the second child of Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este
    Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este
    Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia , was born as the second son of Karl I, last Emperor of Austria-Hungary, and Zita of Bourbon-Parma.-Archduke of Austria-Este:On 16 April 1917, at the age of two, Robert was created Archduke of...

     and of Princess Margherita of Savoy-Aosta
  • Werner Lorenz
    Werner Lorenz
    Werner Lorenz was SS head of the Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle an organization charged with settling ethnic Germans in the German Reich from other parts of Europe.-Early life:...

    , SS-General
  • St. Lorenz, church in Nuremberg
    Nuremberg
    Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...

    , Germany
  • St. Lorenz's Basilica in Kempten im Allgäu
    Kempten im Allgäu
    Kempten is the largest town in Allgäu, a region in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. The population was ca 61,000 in 2006. The area was possibly settled originally by Celts, but was later overtaken by the Romans, who called the town Cambodunum...

    , Germany
  • Lorenz beam
    Lorenz beam
    The Lorenz beam blind landing system was an air radio navigation system in use from the late 1930s. The name refers to the company that produced the system; Lorenz referred to it simply as the Ultrakurzwellen-Landefunkfeuer, German for "ultra-short-wave landing radio beacon", or LFF...

    , a radio-navigation system developed by Germany prior to World War II
  • Lorenz Rifle
    Lorenz Rifle
    The Lorenz rifle was an Austrian rifle used in the mid 19th century. It was used in several European wars, and also featured prominently in the U.S. Civil War.-History:...

    , an Austrian rifle designed in 1854
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