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Early Life
Thomas Kuhn was the son of Thomas and Minnette Kuhn, his father was a world war 1 veteran and a Harvard and MIT graduate and his mother was a Vassar college who wrote articles and did free lancing. Thomas and his family moved around quite a bit and he struggled with life decision early on, like whether to ever fight for America or not. He also attended Harvard himself and decided to become a physicist. -
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Starting his works
Once at Harvard Thomas had certain difficulties with exams but through practice he overcame them and graduated with the highest honors. During the war he was asked to created counter communications measures first at harvard, he then studied the German radios in Britain and France in an effort to aid the allied forces. He returned to Harvard to earn his masters and doctorate. Eventually becoming part of the faculty -
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The Paradigm Shift
He began with the thought that Aristotle was a very smart man but his ideas about motion were all out of sort for his intellect. He then realized that it was because the framework he was working with was too different from modern ones. It was here when he developed the four steps to his scientific revolution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L70T4pQv7P8 -
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Tenure and passing
Thomas also taught at MIT, he had remarried and retired from MIT in 1991. He died in 1996 from cancer. “Home.” Famous Scientists, https://www.famousscientists.org/thomas-kuhn/.