Robert N. Proctor
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American historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Neel Proctor is an American historian of science and Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, where he is also Professor by courtesy of Pulmonary Medicine. While a professor of the history of science at Pennsylvania State University in 1999, he became the first historian to testify against the tobacco industry.
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Published Works
- Agnotology : the making and unmaking of ignorance (2008) (631)
- Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis (1990) (478)
- The history of the discovery of the cigarette–lung cancer link: evidentiary traditions, corporate denial, global toll (2012) (262)
- Tobacco and the global lung cancer epidemic (2001) (216)
- J-PAS: The Javalambre-Physics of the Accelerated Universe Astrophysical Survey (2014) (174)
- Value-Free Science?: Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge (1991) (169)
- Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition (2012) (162)
- The Nazi War on Cancer (2000) (161)
- A comparison of stellar populations in galaxy spheroids across a wide range of Hubble types (2002) (146)
- Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know and Don't Know about Cancer. (1995) (143)
- Value-Free Science?: Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge (1991) (137)
- Spatially resolved spectroscopy of early-type galaxies over a range in mass (2007) (130)
- The Changing Public Image of Smoking in the United States: 1964–2014 (2014) (110)
- The global smoking epidemic: a history and status report. (2004) (109)
- THE MASS–METALLICITY GRADIENT RELATION OF EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES (2009) (92)
- A robust method for the analysis of integrated spectra from globular clusters using Lick indices (2004) (88)
- Ages and metallicities of Hickson compact group galaxies (2004) (85)
- The Chemical Properties of Milky Way and M31 Globular Clusters. I. A Comparative Study (2004) (84)
- Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America (1991) (79)
- Why ban the sale of cigarettes? The case for abolition (2013) (78)
- Bitter pill. (1999) (78)
- Probing the 2D kinematic structure of early-type galaxies out to three effective radii (2009) (70)
- Global properties of ‘ordinary’ early-type galaxies: photometry and spectroscopy of stars and globular clusters in NGC 4494 (2011) (65)
- Spatially resolved kinematics and stellar populations of brightest cluster and group galaxies (2007) (64)
- Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45, and the American Cover-up (1996) (63)
- ‘The industry must be inconspicuous’: Japan Tobacco’s corruption of science and health policy via the Smoking Research Foundation (2018) (59)
- The anti-tobacco campaign of the Nazis: a little known aspect of public health in Germany, 1933–45 (1996) (58)
- The secret and soul of Marlboro: Phillip Morris and the origins, spread, and denial of nicotine freebasing. (2008) (57)
- An ultra-compact dwarf around the Sombrero galaxy (M104): the nearest massive UCD (2009) (47)
- Gemini/GMOS spectroscopy of the spheroid and globular cluster system of NGC 3923 (2007) (47)
- The Chemical Properties of Milky Way and M31 Globular Clusters. II. Stellar Population Model Predictions (2004) (47)
- “Everyone knew but no one had proof”: tobacco industry use of medical history expertise in US courts, 1990–2002 (2006) (45)
- The 6dF Galaxy Survey: Fundamental Plane data (2014) (45)
- The age, metallicity and α-element abundance of Galactic globular clusters from single stellar population models (2007) (44)
- Metallicity gradients at large galactocentric radii using the near-infrared Calcium triplet (2009) (41)
- On the mass-to-light ratios of fossil groups: Are they simply dark clusters? (2011) (41)
- The spatially resolved stellar populations of isolated early-type galaxies (2007) (41)
- Three Roots of Human Recency (2003) (39)
- The Nazi War on Tobacco: Ideology, Evidence, and Possible Cancer Consequences (1997) (39)
- The early-type galaxies NGC 1407 and NGC 1400 – II. Star formation and chemical evolutionary history (2008) (37)
- Gemini/GMOS Spectra of Globular Clusters in the Virgo Giant Elliptical NGC 4649 (2006) (35)
- The globular cluster kinematics and galaxy dark matter content of NGC 3923 (2006) (34)
- The early-type galaxies NGC 1407 and NGC 1400 – I. Spatially resolved radial kinematics and surface photometry (2008) (34)
- DERIVING METALLICITIES FROM THE INTEGRATED SPECTRA OF EXTRAGALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTERS USING THE NEAR-INFRARED CALCIUM TRIPLET (2010) (34)
- Spatially resolved stellar populations in the isolated elliptical NGC 821 (2005) (33)
- Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-up (1996) (32)
- X-ray observations of three young, early-type galaxies (2006) (30)
- Evolutionary history of the elliptical galaxy NGC 1052 (2005) (27)
- FINDING FOSSIL GROUPS: OPTICAL IDENTIFICATION AND X-RAY CONFIRMATION (2011) (24)
- Constraining the star formation histories of spiral bulges (1999) (24)
- Learning from Philip Morris: Japan Tobacco's strategies regarding evidence of tobacco health harms as revealed in internal documents from the American tobacco industry (2004) (23)
- Dawkins's 'Rainbow' reduces science to truth, beauty and fantasy'. Essay review of: Dawkins, Richard: Unweaving the rainbow: science, delusion, and the popular appetite for wonder. Boston, Mass.: Houghton-Mifflin 1998 (1999) (21)
- Smoke and Mirrors: The Canadian Tobacco War (1997) (19)
- Commentary: Schairer and Schöniger's forgotten tobacco epidemiology and the Nazi quest for racial purity. (2001) (19)
- Darwin's revolution. (1998) (19)
- Smoke: A Global History of Smoking (2005) (18)
- Should medical historians be working for the tobacco industry? (2004) (18)
- Keck spectroscopy of globular clusters in the spiral galaxy NGC 2683 (2007) (17)
- Angel H Roffo: the forgotten father of experimental tobacco carcinogenesis. (2006) (16)
- The effects of stellar populations on galaxy scaling relations in the 6dF Galaxy Survey (2008) (15)
- Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan_Meets_OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience (review) (1998) (14)
- Fossil groups in the Millennium simulation Their environment and its evolution (2010) (14)
- The anatomy of the NGC 5044 group – I. Group membership and dynamics (2008) (14)
- Nazi Biomedical Policies (1992) (13)
- Why did the Nazis have the world's most aggressive anti-cancer campaign? (1999) (13)
- The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty (2001) (12)
- The anatomy of the NGC 5044 group ― II. Stellar populations and star formation histories (2009) (12)
- Pre-enriched, not primordial ellipticals (1997) (11)
- The cigarette catastrophe continues (2015) (10)
- The SLUGGS survey: chromodynamical modelling of the lenticular galaxy NGC 1023 (2015) (10)
- Expert witnesses take the stand (2000) (10)
- On playing the Nazi card (2008) (9)
- A derivation of masses and total luminosities of galaxy groups and clusters in the maxBCG catalogue (2015) (8)
- Damp Mergers: Recent Gaseous Mergers without Significant Globular Cluster Formation? (2006) (8)
- Material metaphors (2007) (8)
- Anti-Agate: The Great Diamond Hoax and the Semiprecious Stone Scam (2001) (7)
- Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene (1995) (7)
- Probing Spectral Line Gradients beyond One Effective Radius in NGC 3610 (2004) (7)
- Value-Free Science? Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge. (1993) (6)
- No Time for Heroes (1995) (6)
- Spatially resolved stellar population parameters in the BCGs of two fossil groups (2014) (5)
- Big tobacco focuses on the facts to hide the truth: an algorithmic exploration of courtroom tropes and taboos (2019) (5)
- The political iconicity of denominative suffixes in science (or, phonesthemic tints and taints in the coining of science domain names). (2007) (5)
- FDA’s new plan to reduce the nicotine in cigarettes to sub-addictive levels could be a game-changer (2017) (5)
- Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire (2014) (5)
- Argonne national laboratory and the emergence of computer and computational science, 1946--1992 (illinois) (2005) (3)
- Prohibition no, abolition yes! Rethinking how we talk about ending the cigarette epidemic (2022) (3)
- Nazi medical ethics: ordinary doctors? (2003) (3)
- Tobacco and Health (2004) (3)
- The Cigarette: A Political History-The Past, Present, and Future of US Tobacco. (2020) (2)
- Wilhelm C. Hueper: pioneer of environmental carcinogenesis. (1997) (2)
- [Hitler and the anti-smoking movement in the time of national socialism]. (2000) (2)
- Into the shadows (1990) (2)
- [Tobacco and the global epidemic of lung cancer]. (2002) (2)
- The Golden Weed, America's Most Deadly Drug (2007) (2)
- “‐Logos,” “‐Ismos,” and “‐Ikos” (2007) (2)
- Word imperfect: Words my “word perfect 5.0” dictionary does not know (1994) (1)
- The 6dFGS Fundamental Plane (2010) (1)
- Experiment and Interpretation: A Pathologist Reflects on Thirty Years of Cancer Research (review) (1997) (1)
- Conciliation, Gould's Last Discourse (2003) (1)
- Medical historians and the tobacco industry (2004) (1)
- Book Review Courage under Siege: Starvation, Disease, and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto By Charles G. Roland. 352 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1992. $25. 0-19-506285-X (1993) (1)
- Metallicities and stellar populations in spiral bulges (2002) (1)
- Medical historians and the tobacco industry. Author's reply (2004) (1)
- Books in brief (2011) (1)
- From Maverick to Mole: John C. Burnham, Tobacco Consultant (2019) (1)
- Henry Friedlander. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1995. Pp. xxiii, 421. $34.95 (1997) (1)
- The Oberrothenbach catastrophe. (1993) (1)
- Chapter 8 – Filtered Cigarettes and the Low-Tar Lie in China (2020) (1)
- Murderous Science. Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and Others, Germany, 1933-1945. Benno Muller-Hill. Oxford University Press, New York, 1988. xvi, 208 pp. $24.95. Translated from the German edition (Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1984) by George R. Fraser. (1988) (1)
- Fossil groups of galaxies: Are they groups? Are they fossils? (2009) (1)
- God is watching: history in the age of near-infinite digital archives (2018) (1)
- Probing the 2-D kinematic structure of early-type galaxies out to 3 effective radii (2009) (0)
- Book Reviews (2001) (0)
- God is watching: history in the age of near-infinite digital archives (2018) (0)
- Anthropologists under fire (2000) (0)
- Book Review The Progress of Experiment: Science and therapeutic reform in the United States, 1900–1990 (Cambridge History of Medicine.) By Harry M. Marks. 258 pp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1997. $59.95. 0-521-58142-7 (1998) (0)
- Erratum to Global properties of 'ordinary' early-type galaxies: Photometry and spectroscopy of stars and globular clusters in NGC 4494 [MNRAS (2011) 415, 3393] (2015) (0)
- 2D kinematic structure of early-type galaxies (Proctor+, 2009) (2010) (0)
- Racial hygiene: the pseudo-science of Nazi medicine. (1989) (0)
- Evolution vs. creationism struggle is nothing new (1999) (0)
- Finding Life in Old Bones (2005) (0)
- Women in science '93: a "female style"? (1993) (0)
- What causes cancer? A political history of recent debates (2000) (0)
- Holocaust science (2005) (0)
- Introduction: Who Knew What and When? (2019) (0)
- Information versus Power Approaches to Understanding the History of Cigarettes (2012) (0)
- Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination and Conjecture (review) (2004) (0)
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: 6dF Galaxy Survey: Fundamental Plane data (Campbell+, 2014) (2015) (0)
- GMOS photometry of five globular cluster systems: NGC 4649, NGC 3923, NGC 524, NGC 3115 and NGC 3379 (2009) (0)
- Stalinist Science (review) (1998) (0)
- The star formation histories of fossil group galaxies (2009) (0)
- Ages, abundances, and kinematics of globular clusters in NGC 3379 and NGC 4649 with Gemini/GMOS (2009) (0)
- Nazis Versus Cancer: The Flip Side of Fascism? (2020) (0)
- The Nature of Diamonds. George E. Harlow (2000) (0)
- Doctors under Hitler. Michael H. Kater (1992) (0)
- Timeline of Global Tobacco Mergers and Acquisitions (selected) (2019) (0)
- Biology as Destiny: The Scientific Mystifications of Medical Mass Murder@@@Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis. (1989) (0)
- Stellar Population gradients in early-type galaxies (2006) (0)
- Medicine and the German Jews: A History (review) (2002) (0)
- Ivan Illich’s Medical Nemesis : Fifteen Years Later (1991) (0)
- Agnotología (Agnotology) (2019) (0)
- Human Experimental Abuse, In and Out of Context (2001) (0)
- Star formation histories across hubble types (2003) (0)
- Book Review The Doctor-Activist: Physicians fighting for social change Edited by Ellen L. Bassuk, with the assistance of Rebecca W. Carman. 254 pp. New York, Plenum, 1996. $27.95. 0-306-45267-7 (1996) (0)
- Nazi science (letter) (1999) (0)
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: Mass and luminosity of maxBCG galaxies groups (Proctor+, 2015) (2015) (0)
- Abundances in Spiral Bulges: Comparisons with Ellipticals (1998) (0)
- The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America (review) (2002) (0)
- VizieR Online Data Catalog: Stars and globulars in NGC4494 (Foster+, 2011) (2012) (0)
- Acting Now Is Urgent: Commentary on Zeller. (2018) (0)
- Lexicon of Tobacco Industry Jargon (2019) (0)
- The Nazi Antitobacco Campaign (2001) (0)
- Acting Now Is Urgent: Commentary on Zeller. (2018) (0)
- Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order. Alan Sica (1989) (0)
- Part Four. Radiant Filth and Redemption (2019) (0)
- Racial realities or bombast? (2004) (0)
- Atrocity begins at home (1995) (0)
- Book Review:The Wellborn Science: Eugenics in Germany, France, Brazil, and Russia Mark B. Adams (1992) (0)
- Part Three. Conspiracy on a Grand Scale (2019) (0)
- Out of the Chattering Ice (2002) (0)
- Part One. The Triumph of the Cigarette (2019) (0)
- Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race Dieter Kuntz & Susan Bachrach, eds (2005) (0)
- Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima.M. Susan Lindee (1995) (0)
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