Author

Books by Thomas S. Kuhn

Thomas S. Kuhn (1922–1996) was an American historian and philosopher of science. He received his doctorate in physics from Harvard and later turned to the history of science, teaching at Berkeley, Princeton, and MIT. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, published as a monograph in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, became one of the most-cited academic works of the twentieth century. His other books include The Copernican Revolution and Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity. The term "paradigm shift" entered popular language largely through his influence, often in ways he found imprecise.