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Birth
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born on July 18th, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio. -
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Childhood
Thomas Kuhn grew up in Watertown, CT. Where he graduated from "The Taft School" in 1940. He decided to pursue a degree in Physics at Harvard University. -
Bachelors
Thomas Kuhn obtained his BS in physics from Harvard University in 1943. -
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Instructor
Thomas Kuhn instructed History of Science for 8 years at Harvard. Kuhn later taught philosophy and history at the University of California, Berkeley. -
PhD
Thomas S. Kuhn obtained his PhD in Physics in 1949 after achieving his masters in 1946 studying under John Van Vleck. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
In 1962, Thomas Kuhn published his book "The structure of Scientific Revolutions" his most well known piece of work. In this book Thomas discusses the idea of Paradigm and Paradigm shift, the cyclic patterns between Normal Science and Extraordinary Science. Normal science is just that "normal" it is the paradigm we are used to and scientists make their rules and hypothesis off of. While extraordinary science is the break through the abnormal the shift away from everyday known science. -
Paradigm Shift
A great video on the work done by Thomas Kuhn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tasVTgZc9Gw -
Death
In 1994, Kuhn was diagnosed with lung cancer, and passed away in 1996 in Cambridge CT.
