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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Kuhn, Margaret Known as "Maggie.” 1905-1995. American activist and non-profit organization executive. In 1970 she founded the Gray Panthers, an organization dedicated to ending age discrimination.
- Kuhn, 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.
- Kuhn, 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. Austrian chemist who did research on carotenoids and vitamins (1900-1967)
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“NPR's Anthony Kuhn is traveling with the secretary and has this report from Siem Reap, Cambodia.”
“James Kuhn is a Michigan-based artist who likes to paint his own face in the most intricate, creative ways.”
“He was a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Company and was a representative of the Rothschild banking dynasty in England and France where he maintained very close working relationships throughout his entire career with his brother, Max Warburg, who was the head of the Warburg banking consortium in Germany and the Netherlands.”
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“As we will see, this close relationship would come into play at several critical junctures in Kuhn's life.”
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“And, if Kuhn is to be believed, the skepticism itself is operating from within the same paradigm.”
“Kuhn is also a member of many scientific academies, societies and organizations in all parts of the world.”
“A learned Jesuit monk, Eusebio Kuhn, is said to have been the first who discovered that California was a peninsula.”
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“INSKEEP: NPR's Anthony Kuhn is in Islamabad, Pakistan.”
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Book Review: Nibble & Kuhn by David Schmahmann « A Progressive on the Prairie
“[1] While John Grisham’s novels are the equivalent of a big studio, blockbuster thriller, Nibble & Kuhn is more akin to an indie, light romantic comedy.”
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