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The Cohesive Energy of Monovalent Metals as a Function of the Atomic Quantum Defects
Kuhn returned to Harvard after the war in Europe ended and graduated with a master’s degree in Physics in 1946 and doctorate in 1949. His PhD thesis was The Cohesive Energy of Monovalent Metals as a Function of the Atomic Quantum Defects. Even before he returned to America, his enthusiasm for physics had been dwindling. He continued studying it though, because it was the most convenient way for him to get a doctorate. -
The Copernican Revolution
The Copernican Revolution was the paradigm shift from the Ptolemaic model of the heavens, which described the cosmos as having Earth stationary at the center of the universe, to the heliocentric model with the Sun at the center of the Solar System. The book was written by Thomas Kuhn. -
The Paradigm Shift
A Paradigm Shift is a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions. Kuhn first described the paradigm shift in his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Paradigm shifts is what made Kuhn's name. For example, the Internet created a paradigm shift in the way business is conducted. Email and scan replaced the fax machine and courier services.
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Kuhn's Later Works
Kuhn’s later works were a collection of essays, The Essential Tension (1977), and the technical study Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity (1978)
