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Thomas Kuhn is a name that many scientists reference due to his contributions to the scientific community. His book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is the most cited academic books of all time. He integrated a new style of philosophy that sees the development of science along with the revolution and growth.
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He started in physics but then switched to history of science and moved over to the philosophy of science and graduated Harvard in 1943. After graduation, he continued to research relating to radar at Harvard then later in Europe during WWII.
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He gained his masters and then his doctorate in physics and was elected to the prestigious Society of Fellows at Harvard until 1956. He taught undergraduate’s science in the humanities as a part of the General Education in Science.
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In 1957, while concentrating on history of science, he focused on 18th century matter theory and the early history of thermodynamics and later turned to history of astronomy. Later publishing his first book, The Copernican Revolution.
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Getting accepted to become a full-time professor at University of California in 1961, he then drafted The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Coining the term paradigm for science and the normal with the revolution of changing it. In normal science, the key theories are fixed where in the scientific revolution, the matrix undergoes revision, preceding the period of normal science.
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This video is a summary of the Scientific Revolutions with wonderful colors and cartoons while mentioning other scientist along with Thomas Kuhn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzo8vnxSARg
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Bird A. Thomas Kuhn. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2018 Oct 31 [accessed 2021 Mar 8]. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/#DeveScie
