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Kuhn, Thomas Samuel

Born: 1922 AD
Died: 1996 AD, at 74 years of age.

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US philosopher and historian of science

 

developed concepts of scientific paradigm and paradigm shift

 

professor of philosophy and history of science at Princeton University 1964-1979

 

professor of philosophy and history of science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1979-1996

 

wrote "The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought" 1957, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" 1962, "The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change" 1977, "Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912" 1978






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