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Thomas Kuhn

By Sora_0719

  • Thomas Samuel Kuhn

    Thomas Samuel Kuhn
    Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Both his parents was from Jewish decent but they didn't practice the religion. At a young age Kuhn moved to New York. It was at the age of seven when Kuhn could finally read and write with the help from his father whom was a former graduate of Harvard and MIT. Although he moved many times during his childhood, he soon became a straight-A student. He later enrolled at Harvard university where he majored in Physics. https://www.famousscientists.org/thomas-kuhn/

  • From Charlie to Alpha

    From Charlie to Alpha
    Beginning at Havard was a difficult start for Kuhn but graduated his sophmore years with the highest honor. That very summer he joined the Radio Research Laboratory's Theoretical group which was then sent to the UK to work by devising countermeasures against enemy radar. After the War World 2, Kuhn returned to completed his masters degree in Physics. Three years later he had his doctorate. His PHD thesis was The Cohesive Energy of Monovalent Metals as a Function of the Atomic Quantum Defects.

  • The Paradigm Shift

    The Paradigm Shift
    The Paradigm Shift was used for more then just science. This concept had been in Kuhn mind several years before describing it in his book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions". The origin of this concept was trigger by him reading about Aristotle strange ideas about motion. During this time Kuhn also mentioned the concept of incommensurability, which he used to describe paradigms such as the mechanics of Aristotle vs. Newton, that is so different. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o_C8WQSCmI

  • Final Session

    Final Session
    In 1964, he became a professor of Philosophy and History of science in Princeton, 15 years later he transformed to MLT as Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy. Kuhn married the true author of his PHD thesis in 1948 to a Kathryn Muhs and were divorced 30 yrs. later. He then married again in 1981 to Jehane Barton Burns. Kuhn then retired from MIT ten years later. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 73 from cancer. He suffered for two years from throat and lung cancer.