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.^[1]

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 as vice president in charge of medical activities. 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.^[2]

References

1. Robert Cecil Cook, ed. (1956). Who's who in American Education: A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living Educators of the United States. Marquis Who's Who 17. University of Michigan. p. 209.
2. Dr. Lowell Reed, A biostatistician; Former President of Johns Hopkins Is Dead at 80 The New York Times. Retrieved July 28, 2012.