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| | Thomas Kuhn, 1922-1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Robert Dilorio, associate director of the news office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the scholar, who held the title of professor emeritus at M.I.T., had been ill with cancer in recent years. |
 | | In such periods, he maintained, scientists tend to resist research that might signal the development of a new paradigm, like the work of the astronomer Aristarchus, who theorized in the third century B.C. that the planets revolve around the Sun. |
 | | The new paradigm cannot build on the one that precedes it, he maintained. |
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