Professor
Theodore M. Porter
University of California, Los Angeles
Historian; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
History
Elected
2008
Professor of History. Focuses on the history of measurement, quantification, and statistics, both as techniques of calculation and ways of thinking, in relation to the sciences and to public life. Investigates the development of science and its relation to society throughout history in his many publications. Current research on the significance of medical and psychological data from institutions in the history of the science of human heredity.
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