Lothar Sachs

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Lothar Sachs (born March 7, 1929 in Berlin ; † June 24, 2019 ) was a German statistician .

Life

His father was a Berlin bookbinder and his mother was a tailor. From 1950 to 1956 he studied biology at the Free University of Berlin and at the Technical University of Berlin . The fields of chemistry , thermodynamics and philosophy were particularly formative for him . After successfully passing his state examination , he switched to the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . There he was in 1958 with the theme "magnesium intake by Baker's Yeast" for Dr. rer. nat doctorate.

He took up his first academic career at Schering AG , where he worked in the steroid hormone research area. Subsequently, in 1964, he first became a scientific assistant and then head of the clinical-chemical and steroid laboratories at the Kiel University Women's Clinic. Here he developed new methods of analysis and promoted studies in the field of endocrinology . As the youngest member, he was a member of the Learning Objectives Commission for Biomathematics of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1971 to 1974 . In 1974 he completed his habilitation with the topic “Numerical comparison of the classic four-field test with a small sample size” in the field of classic statistics.

In the following years he looked after medical-technical assistants a. a. in statistics in the hygiene institute affiliated with the university. As a delegate, he represented the Federal Republic of Germany in 1978 at the "International Conference on Teaching Statistics to Medical Undergraduates" in Karachi , Pakistan . Until his retirement in 1986 he was professor and deputy director for the Department of Medical Statistics and Documentation (AMSD), today's Institute for Medical Informatics and Statistics (IMIS) at the University of Kiel.

Lothar Sachs had been married since 1960 and had two daughters.

Publications (selection)

  • Statistical evaluation methods: With a new bibliography. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1972, ISBN 978-3-540-05520-4 .
  • Statistical Methods. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York et al. 1988, ISBN 978-3-540-18113-2 .
  • With Jürgen Hedderich: Applied statistics: Collection of methods with R. 8., revised. and additional edition. Springer Spectrum, Berlin / Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-662-56657-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Prof. Dr. Lothar Sachs, emeritus. uni-kiel.de
  2. ↑ Magnesium intake through baker's yeast. Dissertation, Kiel 1958.
  3. ↑ Numerical comparison of 11 competitors of the classic four-field test with a small sample size. Habilitation thesis, Kiel 1974.
  4. ↑ A bright head with many talents. Kiel News, March 4, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Sachs, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German statistician
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 2019