• Source: Theodore Porter

Theodore M. Porter (born 1953) is a professor who specializes in the history of science in the Department of History at UCLA. 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. 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 Princeton University in 1981. In 2008, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2023, he received the George Sarton Medal for lifetime achievement from the History of Science Society.




Works


The Rise of Statistical Thinking (1986)
Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life (1995) Porter, Theodore M. (18 August 2020). 2020 pbk edition. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-20841-1.
The Modern Social Sciences, as editor 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) Porter, Theodore M. (14 July 2020). 2020 pbk edition. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-20323-2.




External links


Professor Porter's Home-page




Notes and references

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• Theodore William Richards
• George Porter
• Kesultanan Utsmaniyah
• Soekarno
• Amerika Serikat
• Perang Dunia I
• Archer Martin
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• John F. Kennedy
• Objektivitas (ilmu)
• Theodore Porter
• Trust in numbers
• Tad Friend
• Null hypothesis
• The Order of Things
• Classical definition of probability
• Theodore Roosevelt
• History of the social sciences
• Sociology of quantification
• Theodore Dwight Woolsey