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.