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Born
Thomas Kuhn was born in Cincinnati Ohio to parents Samuel L. Kuhn (father) and Minette Strook Kuhn (mother). -
Graduated From Harvard.
Kuhn graduated from Harvard University in 1943 in the top GPA percentile of his class. He went on to get mis master and eventually his Doctorate in Physics. -
Published "The Copernican Revolution"
During a period of assistant professorship, in 1957, Kuhn published "The Copernican Revolution". A book mapping the revolutionary change from the theories and ideas of Ptolemy to the eventual Keplerian system being accepted. -
Began Professorship at Berkley
While in the philosophy department, Kuhn to a position covering the history of science. -
Published "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"
in 1962, Kuhn published his most important work in "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions". This book revolutionized how scientific discovery was analyzed. Kuhn introduced the term "Paradigm", which meant a significant discovery where puzzles and questions are supplied for scientists to solve and understand. And paradigms lead to either advances in themselves, or the eventual overthrowing of itself, which leads to another paradigm change in understanding, therefore, a new revolution begins. -
Conclusion
Kuhn continued professorships at multiple different prestigious institutes while also publishing works on the Philosophy of Science. His introduction of the phrase "paradigm shift" completely altered how we compartmentalize different "phases" of scientific discovery. He-in himself- created a paradigm shift of thinking in the philosophy of science, providing a new lens to look through for the analyzation of scientific revolution, he created the term for, and then became, a paradigm shift. -
Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
This is a brief video describing Kuhns meaning/ definition of the word paradigm, and how he used it to analyze scientific revolution. Then shows us how we still use this analysis today. [(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L70T4pQv7P8)]