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Birth Date
"Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born on July 18, 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio" (2017). -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn introduced his idea of paradigm shift when he wrote his book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962.
"Kuhn described the change of intellectual frameworks within which facts are interpreted as a paradigm shift" (2017). MLA citation for Kuhn's major work:
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago :University of Chicago Press, 1962. -
Paradigm Shift
"The concept had been in his mind for many years, starting when he asked himself how an intelligent man like Aristotle could have harbored absurd ideas about motion. It dawned on him that the framework of science in which Aristotle interpreted facts was entirely different from the framework of science we use today, courtesy of Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton. The change of framework was the paradigm shift" (2017). -
Paradigm Shift (cont)
"After a paradigm shift has taken place, Kuhn said, scientists can begin building up facts again, perhaps studying different problems and searching for facts in different places suggested by the new paradigm. He described this period between paradigm shifts as normal science or puzzle solving" (2017). -
Death Date
"Thomas Kuhn died, age 73, of cancer on June 17, 1996 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He had been suffering from throat and lung cancer for two years" (2017). -
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MLA Citations for Timeline
"Thomas Kuhn." Famous Scientists. famousscientists.org. 12 Jun. 2017. Web. 12/5/2020
<www.famousscientists.org/thomas-kuhn/>.
