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Birth Date
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born July 18th, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio -
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The contributions of Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Kuhn was a philosopher who wrote "The structures of Scientific Revolutions" which had major impacts on our understanding of Scientific Revolutions, and also the philosophy of science. In his book he explained the process of Normal science being interrupted by revolutionary science, and during this, the discovery of anomalies leading to new paradigms. The term paradigm shift was coined by Thomas to explain a shift or a fundamental change in approach to our understanding of a topic. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" is a book written by Thomas Kuhn and published in 1962. This was a book written about the history of science, and more specific to the understand of scientific revolutions, and his view on the causes of them. In this book he explains that "Normal Science" can be interrupted by what he called "Revolutionary Science". The discovery of "Anomalies" during revolutions in science leads to "New Paradigms" then in turn asking new questions of old data -
Death Date
Thomas Kuhn died June 17th, 1996, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 73