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Thomas Khun Birth
Thomas Khun was born in the year 1922 in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio to a father who was a hydraulic engineer that also served in the Army Corp of Engineers during the Great War, and to a mother who was liberally educated. Through early schooling he was taught to think independently even though he struggled with reading proficiency in the second grade. -
Thomas Khun Harvard
Thomas Khun graduated from Harvard University in 1943 with an S.B. and worked for a Radio Research Laboratory and researched RADAR counter technology. He would then go abroad in England with the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development to continue his work with RADAR. Following this experience he discovered that he did not enjoy working with RADAR much and decided that the world of physics was not for him and began to pursue scientific philosophy. -
Thomas Khun's Realization
In the summer of 1947, Thomas Khun was struggling to understand Aristotle's idea of physics by using Newtonian ideas. He came to a realization that he should have been thinking about how Aristotle thought about his own ideas rather than using the ideas of another to explain his thoughts. This sparked his pursuit in the history of scientific philosophy. In 1950, he would begin his long pursuit to culmination of all of his studies, -
Thomas Khun's Scientific Revolution
In 1962, Thomas Khun would publish The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and later refined his publication after he addressed criticism. He would later publish a second edition in 1970 which would be the culmination of all his hard work and studies. He would be the individual to coin the term "paradigm change" that we hear and use today. This change is a great revolution in science where an idea or fact changes the way we think about science.
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Reference
Marcum, J. (n.d.) Thomas S. Khun (1922-1996) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(https://iep.utm.edu/kuhn-ts/)