Lowell Reed
| Lowell J. Reed | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 8, 1886 Berlin, New Hampshire |
| Died | April 29, 1966 (aged 80) Berlin, New Hampshire |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Doctoral advisor | Oliver Edmunds Glenn |
| Doctoral students |
Joseph Berkson Morton Kramer Jacob Yerushalmy |
| Known for | Reed–Frost model |
Lowell Jacob Reed (January 8, 1886 – April 29, 1966) was 7th president of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He was born in Berlin, New Hampshire, the son of Jason Reed, a millwright and farmer, and Louella Coffin Reed.
He had a long career as a research scientist in biostatistics and public health administration at Hopkins, where he was previously dean and director of the School of Public Health and later was vice president in charge of medical activities. He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1924 in Toronto. In 1927 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. As a researcher, he developed a well known statistical technique for estimating the ED-50, and his work with epidemiologist Wade Hampton Frost on the Reed–Frost epidemic models also remains well known. He died in Berlin, New Hampshire, in 1966.
Lowell Reed attended the University of Maine, graduating in 1907 with a degree in electrical engineering. In 1915 he earned a PhD in mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. This unusual combination of disciplines was put to use when he arrived at Johns Hopkins University in 1918, where he organized the Department of Biometry and Vital Statistics at the School of Hygiene and Public Health (now the Bloomberg School of Public Health) and was credited with coining the term "biostatistics". He became chair of that department in 1925 and, in 1947, was named vice president in charge of medical activities.
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