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Thomas Kuhn (18,July,1922-17,June,1996)
Thomas Kuhn's higher education began at Harvard University where he obtained his bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. He also was a professor at this university(1951-1956) along with Berkeley(1956-1964), Princeton(1964-1979), and MIT(1979-1991) -
Thomas Kuhn (18,July,1922-17,June,1996)
Before his widely known work off his second book, Kuhn wrote The Copernican Revolution where heliocentric theory was studied. https://youtu.be/khIzr6610cQ -
Thomas Kuhn (18,July,1922-17,June,1996)
What Kuhn is known for is his work in his second book titled The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. His writings became a landmark in how we 'structure' science today.
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Thomas Kuhn (18,July,1922-17,June,1996)
Thomas Kuhn's work in his second book brought fourth the discussion of paradigms, and paradigm shifts. His added inquiries to these disciplines he laid out led to other writings such as The Essential Tension, Black-Body Theory, and Quantum Discontinuity.
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Thomas Kuhn (18,July,1922-17,June,1996)
With Kuhn's layout of his thoughts about scientific revolution and the model crisis etc he has had influence to others who have worked with him or have read his work. One of these people is Paul Hoyningen-Huene who wrote Reconstructing scientific revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn's philosophy of Science.
