Thomas Kuhn
The historian of science whose 1962 book on scientific revolutions made “paradigm shift” an everyday phrase.
Books
The Copernican Revolution1957His first book, on how astronomers gave up a sky with the Earth at its center.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions1962Science works inside a paradigm until the anomalies pile up and it breaks. A short book that changed the field.
Mentioned in
In praise of asking, part two
Why should a simple question cost so much? A nine-year-old tested a healing method with a towel and a piece of cardboard, a doctor drank a glass of bacteria, and Socrates drank the hemlock; each price depended on the certainty the question shook.