Thomas S. Kuhn

Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born in 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied physics at Harvard University, earning his doctorate in 1949. He then turned to the history and philosophy of science and taught at Harvard, the University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His first book, The Copernican Revolution (1957), described how astronomers came to accept a sun-centred universe. In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) he argued that science does not simply grow by adding facts. Instead, long periods of 'normal science', carried out within a shared framework that he called a 'paradigm', are interrupted by revolutions in which one paradigm replaces another. The terms 'paradigm' and 'paradigm shift' became widely used, and the book became one of the most cited academic books of all time. He died in 1996.

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Faith: Born to Jewish though non-observant parents; his own beliefs are not well documented. Source: Wikipedia