Alfred J. Lotka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred J. Lotka

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 02-Mar-1880

Place of Birth: Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 05-Dec-1949

Profession: physicist, mathematician, chemist, statistician, biophysicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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, Lotka is 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.