Dorn, Harold F. (Harold Fred), 1906-1963

A medical statistician for the U.S. Public Health Service, Harold Fred Dorn was born near Ithaca, N.Y. in 1906. After earning an M.S. in Sociology from Cornell, Dorn developed an interest in statistics. He received a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1933 and in 1934 studied the application of statistical methods to social data at the Galton Laboratory at the University College, London. Dorn's best-known work is his development of a "statistical methodology for large-scale epidemiological studies of cardiorespiratory diseases." He died of bone cancer in 1963.

From the guide to the Harold Fred Dorn Papers, 1932-1970, (History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine)