Alfred J. Lotka

Statistician, Author

1880 – 1949

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Who was Alfred J. Lotka?

Alfred James Lotka was a US mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician, famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics. An American biophysicist best known for his proposal of the predator-prey model, developed simultaneously but independently of Vito Volterra. The Lotka-Volterra model is still the basis of many models used in the analysis of population dynamics in ecology.

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Born
Mar 2, 1880
Lviv
Also known as
  • Alfred Lotka
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Cornell University
  • University of Birmingham
Died
Dec 5, 1949
New York City

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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