Kuhn

(ko̵̅o̅n)

  1. Kuhn, Richard 1900-67; Austrian chemist
  2. Kuhn, Thomas S(amuel) 1922-96; U.S. historian & philosopher of science

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American activist and non-profit organization executive. In 1970 she founded the Gray Panthers, an organization dedicated to ending age discrimination.

, Richard 1900-1967.

Austrian chemist. He won a 1938 Nobel Prize for research on carotenoids and vitamins but declined the award by order of the Nazi government.

, Thomas Samuel 1922-1996.

American philosopher and historian best known for his work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), in which he challenged the view that the history of science is a smooth and cumulative process, arguing instead that scientific change occurs through “revolutions” in which one paradigm of inquiry and explanation is replaced by another.

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