Kuhn, Thomas Samuel
Born: 1922 AD
Died: 1996 AD, at 74 years of age.
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Died: 1996 AD, at 74 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None
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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