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Thomas Kuhn attended and graduated from Harvard. He also spent some time working on radar in Harvard and spent some time in Europe working on radar. He also gained his masters degree in physics in 1946. In 1949 he also recieved his doctorate in physics. Kuhn was also elected to the prestigious Society of Fellows at Harvard.
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He published his first book Copernican Revolution. The book was a production of his recent turn towards history of astronomy. This came after he taught a class in science for undergrads in the humanities. This led him to concentrate on history of science and was appointed as an assisstant proffessor and focused on eighteenth century matter theory and the early history of thermodynamics.
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At this time Kuhn was a proffessor at the University of California at Berkeley. This allowed him to develop his interest in the philosophy of science. He was introduced to the works of Wittgenstein and Paul Feyerabend. This led to his book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" being published in the series "International Encyclopedia of Unified Science". This is where he came up with the paradigm shift.
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A collection of Kuhn's essays in philosophy and history of science were published at this time. They titled it "The Essential Tension" which was taken from one of his earliest essays in which he emphasized the importance of tradition in science.
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