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Robert Lawrence Kuhn [1] (born November 6, 1944) is an American public intellectual and investment banker. He is also an author, TV-producer, columnist and commentator, especially on topics related to China. Kuhn is the creator of the PBS series Closer to Truth.
Closer to Truth is a television series on public television [1] originally created, produced, and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn.The original series aired in 2000 for two seasons, followed by a second series aired in 2003 for a single season.
Robert Kuhn may refer to: Robert Lawrence Kuhn (born 1944), American author, investment banker, China specialist, television host Robert T. Kuhn (born 1937), American clergyman, president of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
Linus Pauling — co-discoverer (with Robert Corey) of the alpha helix and beta sheet structures in proteins; Max Perutz — pioneer of protein crystallography; Ernest C. Pollard — founder of the Biophysical Society; Fritz-Albert Popp (German, 1938–2018) — biophoton research and coherence systems in biology
The Wall Street Journal wrote: “His [Kuhn’s] new book is a blockbuster in China, selling more copies here in a single month than any book since the last installment of ‘Harry Potter.’” [3] The Washington Post reported that the “warm official embrace of Kuhn's book is unusual,” adding “the work represented his [Kuhn’s] own best ...
Kuhn presented his notion of a paradigm shift in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). Kuhn contrasts paradigm shifts, which characterize a Scientific Revolution, to the activity of normal science, which he describes as scientific work done within a prevailing framework or paradigm. Paradigm shifts arise when the ...
The philosopher Robert C. Solomon noted that Kuhn's views have often been suggested to have an affinity to those of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. [35] Kuhn's view of scientific knowledge, as expounded in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , has been compared to the views of the philosopher Michel Foucault .
Thomas Samuel Kuhn (/ k uː n /; 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.