Theodore Porter

Theodore Porter
Theodore Porter
	Porter at the 2007 History of Science Society meeting
Born	1953 (age 71–72)
Occupation	Historian of science
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (1989); Ludwik Fleck Prize (1997); Pfizer Award (2018); George Sarton Medal (2023);
Academic background
Education	Stanford University (AB 1976); Princeton University (PhD 1981);
Thesis	The Calculus of Liberalism: The Development of Statistical Thinking in the Social and Natural Sciences of the Nineteenth Century
Academic work
Discipline	History of science
Sub-discipline	Statistics; Quantification;
Institutions	University of Virginia (1984–1991); University of California, Los Angeles (1991–2023);

Theodore M. Porter (born 1953) is a historian of science emeritus in the Department of History at UCLA. He is known for his histories of statistical thinking and quantification, particularly the sociology of quantification.