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Honors
Thomas Kuhn was named a Guggenheim Fellow and was awarded the George Sarton Medal in the History of Science. Britannica's editorial staff. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-S-Kuhn. n.d. Document. 4 April 2019. -
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Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was an American physicist, historian and philosopher of science. -
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Education
Thomas Kuhn was admitted to Harvard University in the fall of 1940. Throughout Kuhn's childhood education he mainly attended private progressive schools. His father was the biggest influence to his education. Thomas Kuhn sped his education due to the outbreak of World War II by taking summer classes graduating with a BS in Physics summa cum laude. -
Kuhn Cycle
The Kuhn Cycle did not offer a more accurate prediction of celestial events, such as planetary positions, but instead appealed to some based on a promise of a better more simple solution that might be developed in the future."Paradigms gain their status because they are more successful than their competitors in solving a few problems that the group of practitioners has come to recognize as acute."Kuhn, T. (1962). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. -
Paradigm Shift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cp6pEzx3uw
(This video gives a visual representation of explaining the paradigm shift.) Critics rebuked Kuhn's imprecise use of the term "paradigm", which Kuhn described as a collection of beliefs and agreements shared by scientists about how problems are to be understood. -
Degrees
Thomas Kuhn was awarded honorary degrees from institutions that included Columbia University and the universities of Notre Dame, Chicago, Padua, and Athens for his work in Science.
