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Thomas Kuhn Short Biography.
Thomas Kuhn was Born in Cinncinati, Ohio to Samuel Louis Kuhn and Minette Kuhn. He went to progressive, private schools in New York. At age 7, Thomas still couldn't read nor write. After help from his father, he did much better and during his sixth, through ninth years in school, he developed a love for mathematics. He attended Harvard University in 1940 choosing to major in physics. Thomas graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1943 -
Radio Research Laboratory
After graduated Harvard in the spring of 1943. Afterward, he began working at the Radio Research Laboratory located at Harvard University. He was working under the watchful eye of a man names John van Vleck. Kuhn's work at the lab was on radar counter technology research, after his work in the U.S he asked to be sent overseas to the UK and work with the U.S office of Scientific Research and Development. It was after this that he felt his enjoyment in physics dwindle. -
Incommensurability
Thomas Kuhn first comes to the discovery of incommensurability while still in school in the 40s. This start came from his reading in Aristotle's works. Kuhn couldn't understand how Aristotle's work was so difficult to understand. Then he started to see patterns and realized that in order to understand he needed to "take apart" words and learn to see them differently. Kuhns discovery of this is what led him to leave his current field of science and work exclusively on this "strange phenomenon" -
The Paradigm Shift
https://youtu.be/Yn8cCDtVd5w
Thomas Kuhn first brought us the "paradigm shift" in his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn argued that when a scientific theory gathers up enough information that it can no longer explain or back up then you reach a tipping point in your work that brings you into a new way of thinking and understanding. For Kuhn, there were four separate parts to this shift.
