Theodore M. Porter (born 1953) is a professor who specializes in the history of science in the Department of History at

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. He has authored several books, including ''The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900''; and ''Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life'', the latter a vast reference for sociology of quantification.E. Popp Berman and D. Hirschman, “The Sociology of Quantification: Where Are We Now?,” Contemp. Sociol., vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 257–266, 2018. His most recent book, published by Princeton University Press in 2018, is ''Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity''. He graduated from Stanford University with an A.B. in history in 1976 and earned a Ph.D. from

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in 1981. In 2008, he was elected to the

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.Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences — History

Works

* ''The Rise of Statistical Thinking'' (1986) * ''Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life'' (1995) * ''The Modern Social Sciences'', with Dorothy Ross (2003) * ''Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age'' (2004) * ''Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity'' (2018)

External links

Professor Porter's Home-page

Notes and references

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