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Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio July 18th 1922.
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Thomas Kuhn earned his bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard university
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Thomas Kuhn earned his master's degree in physics from Harvard university.
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Thomas Kuhn earned his Ph.D. in history of science from Harvard university.
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In this book Kuhn describes "paradigms" and "paradigm shifts" in relation to scientific revolutions. He describes paradigms forming abnormalities over time that cannot be explained, and causes a paradigm shift until a new theory is introduced that replaces the old paradigm with a new one. He also stated that the scientific process may not be a gradual accumulation of information, but paradigm shifts leading to more accurate data rather than whole new data.
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"The Essential Tension" was released to better explain and modify the theses in his book: "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" These were one of the last works released by Thomas Kuhn before his death
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Thomas Kuhn was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1994 and sadly succumbed to the disease a few years later. However, even after his death his work lives on and his ideas and books carry on his legacy and memory to this day, and his contributions to science will never be forgotten.