The Structure of Scientific Revolutions shows how shared research frameworks hold for long stretches, then break under anomalies and get replaced rather than simply refined.

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American historian, physicist and philosopher (1922 – 1996)

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Science advances by revolutions, not steady fact-gathering

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions shows how shared research frameworks hold for long stretches, then break under anomalies and get replaced rather than simply refined.

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Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles. The book popularized the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.

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Occupation: physicist, historian of science, philosopher of science, university teacher
Citizenship: United States
Born: July 18, 1922
Died: June 17, 1996

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