Thomas S. Kuhn

Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science who significantly impacted the field in the 1960s.

Born in Cincinnati, he initially studied physics at Harvard before shifting to the history and philosophy of science.

Kuhn taught at several prestigious institutions, including Harvard, Berkeley, Princeton, and MIT. His seminal work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, published in 1962, presented a revolutionary view of scientific progress.

Kuhn argued that scientific advancement occurs through paradigm shifts rather than linear accumulation of knowledge.

This theory sparked widespread debate across scientific disciplines and fundamentally altered how scientific development was understood.