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Place of birth was Galilee, Israel.
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Kuhn attended Harvard University and received a Bachelors's in Physics.
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Kuhn attended Harvard University and received a Master's Degree in Physics.
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Kuhn attended Harvard University and received a Doctorate Degree in The History of Science.
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Kuhn studied the development of the heliocentric theory of the solar system during the Renaissance. Heliocentrism is the cosmological model in which the Sun lies near a central point while the planets revolve around it. The Copernican Revolution was a shift in the field of astronomy from a geocentric understanding of the universe, centered around Earth, to a heliocentric understanding, centered around the Sun, by Nicolaus Copernicus.
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He identified paradigm shifts. A change in the basic concepts and experimental practices in science. Paradigm is a ‘puzzle’ for scientists to solve. A crisis occurs when the paradigm is a troubling puzzle known as ‘anomalies’. A crisis is followed by a scientific revolution if the existing paradigm is outdated by a rival. He claimed that science guided by one paradigm would be ‘incommensurable’ with science developed under a different paradigm.
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Place of death was Cambridge, MA. At the age of 73 years of age.