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Thomas Kuhn 18 July 1922 - 17 June 1996 (Radio Research)
After graduating from Harvard with a bachelors in Physics, Kuhn joined the Radio Research Laboratory's theoretical group. He worked with a radar team to come up with countermeasures against enemy radar. This was his contribution to helping the war efforts.
https://youtu.be/YL7PA51Qs8A
Image citation: “Thomas Kuhn Paradigm Shifts.” Famous Scientists, www.famousscientists.org/thomas-kuhn/.
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Thomas Kuhn 18 July 1922 - 17 June 1996 (The Copernican Revolution)
His book, The Copernican Revolution, was published during this year. In the book he looks at the development of the heliocentric theory of the solar system during the Renaissance period.
This book became a best seller. Photo reference: “Heliocentric Theory.” FreeImages.com, Caltiva Creatividad, www.historydisclosure.com/copernicus-suggests-heliocentric-system-after-copying-ancient-greeks/.
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Thomas Kuhn 18 July 1922 - 17 June 1996 (Scientific Revolutions)
His influential second book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, is released. In this book he introduces and argues the idea that scientific work can be defined with paradigms. He goes on to propose the idea of paradigm shifts, where scientific achievements cause anomalies in an accepted paradigm concept and this leads to a replacement of a new set of fundamentals that a scientific field follows.
https://youtu.be/oI7qocMDsXM
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Thomas Kuhn 18 July 1922 - 17 June 1996 (The Essential Tension)
A collection of his essays on the Philosophy of Science is released known as The Essential Tension. These cover his ideas such as paradigm shifts, normal science, and incommensurability.
https://youtu.be/ZCQLVF_pEI0
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“‘Normal Science.’” STOREMYPIC, www.storemypic.com/image/normal-science-means-research-firmly-based-upon-one-or-more.zKla.
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Thomas Kuhn 18 July 1922 - 17 June 1996 (Black-Body Theory)
Kuhn publishes Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity. This is a technical study on the history of quantum mechanics or quantum physics.
https://youtu.be/Usu9xZfabPM
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Thomas Kuhn 18 July 1922 - 17 June 1996 (Final works)
Kuhn suffered from cancer for the two years leading to his death. The year of his death he was working on a philosophical monograph that went into "evolutionary conception of scientific change."
https://youtu.be/UH_kXuhRIoQ
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