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 Vita Volterra. The Lotka-Volterra model is still the basis of many models used in the analysis of population dynamics in ecology. Lotka published Elements of Mathematical Biology in 1924, the fi… (More on Lotka)