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With a BS Degree in Physics summa cum laude (with highest honors).
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After graduating, Kuhn joined the Radio Research Laboratory, helping with the war effort by studying enemy radars, in 1944 he traveled with the Royal Air Force to France and Germany
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Here he realized that to understand Aristotle, he needed to think about Ancient Greek philosophy and science instead of Newton era physics.
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Kuhn's final PhD thesis was titled: "The Cohesive Energy of Monovalent Metals as a Function of the Atomic Quantum Defects"
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Taught history and philosophy, in 1961 became full professor in History of Science.
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Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Focus on the concept of a Paradigm Shift. Had a significant impact on our understanding of the history of science. -
Kuhn went to teach as the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Philosophy and History of Science.
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Kuhn, Thomas S. The Essential Tension. Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1977.
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Kuhn, Thomas S. Black-Body and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912. Oxford University Press, 1978.
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Became the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at MIT.
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