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Alfred James Lotka (March 2, 1880 – December 5, 1949) 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. ==Life== Lotka was born in Lwów, Austria-Hungary, formerly part of Poland. His parents, Jacques and Marie (Doebely) Lotka, were US nationals〔http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/epop_02/epop_02_00222.html〕 and he was educated internationally. He received a B. Sc. in 1901 at the University of Birmingham, England, he did graduate work 1901-02 at Leipzig University, he received an M.A. in 1909 at Cornell University and an D. Sc. at Birmingham University after his work there from 1909 to 1912. ;Occupations *Assistant chemist for General Chemical Company (1902–1908, 1914–1919) *Patent examiner for US Patent Office (1909) *Assistant physicist for National Bureau of Standards (1909–1911) *Editor of the ''Scientific American Supplement'' (1911–1914) *Staff member at Johns Hopkins University (1922–1924) *Statistician for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York (1924 until his retirement in 1947) In 1935, he married Romola Beattie. They had no children. ;Honors *President of the Population Association of America (1938–1939) *President of the American Statistical Association (1942) *Vice president of the (Union for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems ) *Chairman of the United States National Committee of the Union *Fellow of American Public Health Association *Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics He died in New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfred J. Lotka」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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