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Early Life and Education
Thomas Kuhn was born on July 18, 1922 in Cincinnati Ohio. Thomas Kuhn graduated from Harvard in 1943 (Summa Cum Laude). During World War II he conducted radar research. Kuhn received his Masters in physics in 1946. In 1956 Thomas started to teach at Harvard. Teaching humanities gave Kuhn his first opportunity to learn about historic scientific text in detail. Kuhn became a full-time professor in 1961 at the University of Berkeley in California. -
Normal Science
Normal Science is research based on current or past scientific achievements. Normal science and a paradigm are closely linked. Without a pair of them there is no normal science and vice versa. Thomas Kuhn's look on science was straight forward. He believed that scientist should focus on science as a whole not trying to change it. -
Paradigm Shift
Thomas Kuhn shook the scientific world with his philosophy of a "paradigm shift". Which is a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions. This is a very simple definition of paradigm shift however, it's how it is applied to science what changes the view of science. Kuhn explains that science is a cycle that eventually stops and picks up after a new theory is formed. With this view it changes scientist outlook because it raises the question of what do we actually know. -
Major publications
Throughout Thomas Kuhn's life he had published many books until his unfortunate demise on June 17, 1996. Kuhn's first book was, "The Copernican Revolution". His first book was about paradigm shift. In 1962 "The structure of scientific revolutions" was published and was apart of a series outlining "Normal Science". In "The structure of scientific relations" Kuhn changed the way scientist view the development of science.
