Paul Lewi

Paul Lewi

Paul J. Lewi (born 4 Jan 1938) is a Belgian scientist, who elaborated Spectral Map Analysis in 1975 and was one of the cofounders of chemometrics in 1983.

Biography

Paul Lewi was born in 1938 in Westmalle, Belgium. His parents, Leo Lewi and Mariette Devocht, were professional artists and teachers. He graduated as Industrial Engineer in Nuclear Chemistry at the "Hoger Rijksinstituut voor Technisch Onderwijs en Kernenergiebedrijven" Mol, in 1960 and as a Candidate in Mathematical Sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1962. He obtained a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1995.

He started working at Janssen Pharmaceutica in 1962, first as mathematical analyst in Cardiovascular Research [Lewi P and Schaper W. (1966). "Standing waves inside the heart". In: "Nature". 1966 Aug 27;211(52):985-6] , then he became the head of Applied Mathematics in 1967, and head of the Scientific Computer department in 1969. He became head of the Information Science department (1973) and finally vice-president of the Center for Molecular Design (CMD) in 1995, which he founded together with Paul Janssen. During his career he elaborated Spectral Map Analysis in 1975 and was one of the cofounders of chemometrics in 1983.

He is married with Philomena Van Bylen, and together they have 5 children.

Publications

Books:
* D.L. Massart, B. Vandeginste, L. Buydens, S. De Jong, P. Lewi and J. Smeyers-Verbeke, Handbook of Chemometrics and Qualimetrics. Vol 20 A, (1997), Elsevier
* B. Vandeginste, D.L. Massart, L. Buydens, S. De Jong, P. Lewi and J. Smeyers-Verbeke, Handbook of Chemometrics and Qualimetrics. Vol 20 B, (1998), Elsevier

Articles, a selection:
* Lewi P.J. (1976). "Spectral mapping, a technique for classifying biological activity profiles of chemical compounds. Arzneim. Forsch". in: "Drug Res." 26, 1295-1300.
* Lewi PJ. (1981). "Multidimensional analysis of pharmacological data". In: "Rev Pure Appl Pharmacol Sci." 1981 Jul-Sep;2(3):229-90
* Lewi PJ. (1987). "The use of multivariate statistics in industrial pharmacology". In: "Pharmacol Ther" [B] . 1978;3(4):481-537.
* Lewi PJ, Mullie A, Quets A. (1989). "Relevance and significance of pre-CPR conditions in cardio-pulmonary-cerebral resuscitation. A graphic analysis by means of Spectramap". The Cerebral Resuscitation Study Group, Resuscitation. 1989;17 Suppl:S35-44; discussion S199-206.
* Lewi P.J. (2005). "Spectral mapping, a personal and historical account of an adventure in multivariate data analysis". in: "Chemometr. Intell. Lab. Syst.", 77, 215-223, 2005
* 2006. [http://www.datascope.be/sog.htm "Speaking of Graphics"] .

References

External links

* [http://www.lewi.be/ Paul J. Lewi]
* [http://www.datascope.be/ DataScope]


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