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Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born on July 18, 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA into an affluent family. His father, Samuel Louis Kuhn, was a Cincinnati-born industrial engineer and investment consultant. Kuhn's mother, Minette Kuhn (née Strook), came from a wealthy New York family. Both of Kuhn's parents were active in left-wing politics and both were of Jewish descent, although neither of them practiced their religion. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/ -
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Thomas Kuhn's Career
Kuhn graduated from Harvard summa cum laude in 1943. He gained his master’s degree in physics in 1946, and his doctorate in 1949, also in physics.In 1961 Kuhn became a full professor at the University of California at Berkeley, In 1964 Kuhn left Berkeley to take up the position of M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at Princeton University. He retired from MIT in 1991, age 69.
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Kuhn's Paradigm Shift
Kuhn first described the paradigm shift in his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn’s paradigm shift is interpreted as an important change that happens when the usual way of thinking about or doing something is replaced by a new and different way. According to Kuhn, in order for paradigm shift to take place there are four required steps. Phase 1: Normal Science. Phase 2: Model Crisis. Phase 3: The Model Revolution, once this phase is settled 4: Paradigm Shift begins. -
Kuhn's personal life and death
He married Kathryn Muhs in 1948. His wife, like his mother, was a graduate of Vassar College. She typed his PhD thesis. They had two daughters and a son – Sarah, Elizabeth, and Nathaniel. The couple divorced in 1978. In 1981, age 59, Kuhn married Jehane Barton Burns.
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.
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