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The Early Stages
Thomas Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He went through a private school in his younger years and would continue to go to private schools until he would get accepted to Harvard University and earn his physics degree in 1943. -
Kuhn"s Revolution
Thomas Kuhn would go onto creating the book "The Structure of Scientific Revolution" and it would start the process of helping change the view people have on how science was conducted. The main takeaway of the book is how science is broken up in to three main stages. The first being prescience where scientist go about doing what they usually do. Next comes normal science, which would size up a shift in scientific thought. The final stage is the paradigm shift. -
Post Kuhn's Revolution
Thomas Kuhn would continue on after he wrote his book to work on the thoughts behind scientific theories. Some claim that in Kuhn's model for paradigm shift, that science evolves through revolutions. -
Debate Between Kuhn and Polanyi
Both of these scientists believes that a scientist experiences made science a relativized discipline. Some believed that Kuhn had plagiarized Polanyi's work and it did not get resolved until Kuhn recognized Polanyi in his second edition of his book.
