Thomas Kuhn, the philosopher and intellectual historian best known for his work on what he called the structure of scientific revolutions, followed Einstein in recognizing the importance of nonintellectual aspects of culture, specifically the role of "institutional and socioeconomic" factors in scientific development. But Kuhn, who took as his examples not just long-established fields like physics but also newer ones like and , observed that the influence of these institutional and socioeconomic underpinnings is greatest when an area of inquiry is in its infancy.