Thomas Kuhn 1922 – 1996

Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions changed how the development of the natural sciences is understood. Trained originally as a physicist at Harvard, he turned to the history of science and produced studies of the Copernican revolution and of the early quantum theory before publishing the great synthetic work that introduced the vocabulary of paradigms, normal science, anomalies, crises, and revolutionary change. He spent most of his career at Princeton and MIT. The Essential Tension and The Road since Structure refined his account in response to four decades of debate.