1922 - 1996
Thomas Samuel Kuhn (; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American historian and philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom. Kuhn made several claims concerning the progress of scientific knowledge: that scientific fields undergo periodic "paradigm shifts" rather than solely progressing in a linear and continuous way, and that these paradigm shifts open up new approaches to understanding what scientists would never have considered valid before; and that the notion of scientific truth, at any given moment, cannot be established solely by objective criteria but is defined by a consensus of a scientific community. Competing paradigms are frequently incommensurable; that is, they are competing and irreconcilable accounts of reality. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Kuhn has received more than 1,571,817 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Thomas Kuhn is the 13th most popular historian, the 140th most popular biography from United States (up from 169th in 2019) and the most popular American Historian.
Kuhn's most famous work is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In this book, Kuhn argues that scientific progress is not linear but rather is characterized by periods of normal science punctuated by revolutions.
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Among historians, Thomas Kuhn ranks 13 out of 339. Before him are Sima Qian, Josephus, Polybius, Suetonius, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Diodorus Siculus. After him are Manetho, Hecataeus of Miletus, Procopius, Cassius Dio, Arnold J. Toynbee, and Johann Joachim Winckelmann.
145 BC - 86 BC
HPI: 77.97
Rank: 7
37 - 100
HPI: 77.56
Rank: 8
208 BC - 126 BC
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 9
70 - 126
HPI: 74.53
Rank: 10
1805 - 1859
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 11
90 BC - 30 BC
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 12
1922 - 1996
HPI: 73.55
Rank: 13
201 BC - Present
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 14
550 BC - 476 BC
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 15
500 - 560
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 16
155 - 235
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 17
1889 - 1975
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 18
1717 - 1768
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 19
Among people born in 1922, Thomas Kuhn ranks 5. Before him are José Saramago, Stan Lee, Yitzhak Rabin, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. After him are Christopher Lee, Judy Garland, Norodom Sihanouk, Ava Gardner, Pierre Cardin, Erich Hartmann, and Franjo Tuđman. Among people deceased in 1996, Thomas Kuhn ranks 4. Before him are Baba Vanga, François Mitterrand, and Marcello Mastroianni. After him are Tupac Shakur, Carl Sagan, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Marguerite Duras, Dzhokhar Dudayev, Ella Fitzgerald, and Joseph Brodsky.
1922 - 2010
HPI: 76.73
Rank: 1
1922 - 2018
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 2
1922 - 1995
HPI: 75.62
Rank: 3
1922 - 1975
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 4
1922 - 1996
HPI: 73.55
Rank: 5
1922 - 2015
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 6
1922 - 1969
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 7
1922 - 2012
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 8
1922 - 1990
HPI: 72.66
Rank: 9
1922 - 2020
HPI: 71.95
Rank: 10
1922 - 1993
HPI: 71.92
Rank: 11
1922 - 1999
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 12
1911 - 1996
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 1
1916 - 1996
HPI: 75.48
Rank: 2
1924 - 1996
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 3
1922 - 1996
HPI: 73.55
Rank: 4
1971 - 1996
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 5
1934 - 1996
HPI: 71.94
Rank: 6
1941 - 1996
HPI: 71.93
Rank: 7
1921 - 1996
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 8
1914 - 1996
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 9
1944 - 1996
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 10
1917 - 1996
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 11
1940 - 1996
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, Thomas Kuhn ranks 140 out of 18,182. Before him are Barbra Streisand (1942), John Adams (1735), Francis Ford Coppola (1939), Billy the Kid (1859), Amelia Earhart (1897), and Vin Diesel (1967). After him are Jon Voight (1938), Steven Seagal (1952), Frank Herbert (1920), Tupac Shakur (1971), John Wayne (1907), and Judy Garland (1922).
1942 - Present
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 134
1735 - 1826
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 135
1939 - Present
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 136
1859 - 1881
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 137
1897 - 1937
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 138
1967 - Present
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 139
1922 - 1996
HPI: 73.55
Rank: 140
1938 - Present
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 141
1952 - Present
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 142
1920 - 1986
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 143
1971 - 1996
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 144
1907 - 1979
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 145
1922 - 1969
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 146
Among historians born in United States, Thomas Kuhn ranks 1. After him are Jared Diamond (1937), Donna Haraway (1944), Barbara W. Tuchman (1912), Hayden White (1928), Richard Sennett (1943), Howard Zinn (1922), Linda Nochlin (1931), Deborah Lipstadt (1947), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Robert Darnton (1939), and John King Fairbank (1907).
1922 - 1996
HPI: 73.55
Rank: 1
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.30
Rank: 2
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 3
1912 - 1989
HPI: 58.53
Rank: 4
1928 - 2018
HPI: 57.72
Rank: 5
1943 - Present
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 6
1922 - 2010
HPI: 55.04
Rank: 7
1931 - 2017
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 8
1947 - Present
HPI: 53.76
Rank: 9
1861 - 1932
HPI: 52.60
Rank: 10
1939 - Present
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 11
1907 - 1991
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 12