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Thomas S. Kuhn

By Connour.Alex

  • The Start of Kuhn

    The Start of Kuhn
    Thomas S. Kuhn was born July 18, 1922, in Cincinati Ohio. Kuhn went to Harvard and graduated with a BS in Physics summa cum laude (with highest honor) in 1943.

  • World War II

    World War II
    After graduating from school Kuhn began working to help defend against enemy radar. He did this at Harvard and traveled to the United Kingdom studying German radar that eventually led him to Germany towards the end of the war.

  • Kuhn's Questioning of Science

    Kuhn's Questioning of Science
    After the war, Kuhn went back to school and earned his Master's in Physics in 1946 and his Doctorate in 1949. This is an important time for Kuhn because it was the start of his discovery in how he changed the scientific community. Kuhn was studying Aristotle's State of Motion. This did lead for him to start looking into the history of science and how it changes.

  • The Kuhn Cycle

    The Kuhn Cycle
    This is the backbone of Kuhns work and the cycle of science. The paradigm shift is a revolution in science. A theory or law that has been the standard in science has been disproved through advances in science and technology. He has five stages to this method. the video attached goes into greater detail of these stages, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQPsc55zsXA

  • Kuhn's Work

    Kuhn's Work
    Through Kuhn's work his theory on science and how the paradigm shift affects science bleed into other fields such as political science, economics, sociology, and even business management. Kuhns book revolutionized science and is widely used to this day. At This point in his life, he had published a good number of essays that progressed science even more.

  • Thomas S Kuhn - In the End

    Thomas S Kuhn - In the End
    Thomas Kuhn died, at the age of 73, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He had been suffering from throat and lung cancer for two years.

  • Refrences

    Work Cited
    Marcum, James A. “Thomas Kuhn’s Revolution: An Historical Philosophy of Science.” Thomas Kuhn’s Revolution, 1st ed., Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2008.
    Bird, Alexander, "Thomas Kuhn", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2022/entries/thomas-kuhn/.
    "Thomas Kuhn." Famous Scientists. famousscientists.org. 12 Jun. 2017. Web. 5/7/2022
    <www.famousscientists.org/thomas-kuhn/>.