Samuel_H._Preston
Samuel Hulse Preston (born December 2, 1943) is an American demographer and sociologist.
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He is one of the leading demographers in the United States. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1968. Preston is a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the former dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1987.[1] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986 and the American Philosophical Society in 1992.[2][3]
The Preston curve is named after him.[citation needed] Preston's major research interest is in the health of populations. He has written primarily about mortality trends and patterns in large aggregates, including 20th-century mortality transitions and black/white differentials in the United States.