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Thomas Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Little did the world know he was going to change the understanding for the way scientific knowledge was understood to progress.
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Thomas Kuhn Became a teacher at Harvard, He taught The Philosophy of Science for 40 years at various different schools. His credentials are as follows; he had a Bachelors and Master's degree in Physics and his PHD was in History of Science. Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Thomas S. Kuhn". Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Jul. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-S-Kuhn. Accessed 9 December 2023.
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His book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was published this year and he argued that science does not progress in a linear way it goes through a 4 step model leading to a paradigm shifts.
Phase 1 - Normal Science
Phase 2 - Model Crisis
Phase 3 - Model Revolution
Phase 4 - Paradigm Shift
Paradigm Shifts are the changes to beliefs that were once accepted by the world such as the Paradigm Shift from the Geocentric to the Heliocentric models.
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Thomas Kuhn passed away in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He served the world and was a great man in my opinion.