Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 - 17 June, 1996) was a Jewish-American physicist, and historian and philosopher of science. He introduced the idea of paradigm shift. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and died from lung cancer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, aged 73.

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 Thomas Kuhn Online  (News, Philosophy, Biography, Bibliography)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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