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Birth of Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was the first born child of Minette Scroock Kuhn and Samuel L. Kuhn in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Kuhn's father made a living through hydraulic engineering while training at Harvard University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. -
Harvard Graduate
Thomas Kuhn graduated Summa Cum Laude from Harvard University with his B.S. Degree in physic. In 1946 Kuhn obtained his Masters Degree in Physics and proceeded to earn his P.H.D. in 1949. -
The Copernican Revolution
Thomas Kuhn published his first book in 1956.
The Copernican Revolution was nothing more that an book full of scrutiny for Nicholaus Copernican's statement that Earth revolves the sun. Kuhn believed Copernican theory was stolen from Claudius Ptolemy -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
In 1958 Thomas Kuhn published his most philosophy influential work. It was titled "The Stricture of Scitntific Revilutions." In this piece of work Thomas Kuhn argued that "scientific research and thought are defined by paradigms" (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 14 July 2019). Kuhn was most known for his theory of the paradigm shift, or a dramatic shift in a
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The Kuhn Cycle
The Kuhn Cycle is a cycle that explains the revolution of science.
The cycle states that Normal science (prescience), is based on widely accepted assumptions, Assumptions are then researched in search of new information which leads to the model drift phase. Assumptions are then tested and experimented on until they create a new paradigm. Over time that paradigm naturally accepted and turns into an assumption. The cycle then starts a back at prescience, -
Death of Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Kuhn dies at the age of 73 after battling with throat and lung cancer
