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Thomas Kuhn (July 18, 1922 to June 17, 1996)

By Bronson1988
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    Birth of a Scientist

    Born July 18, 1922 Thomas Samuel Kuhn. Growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio. Kuhn's to Samuel L. Kuhn, an industrial engineer. In the year 1940 he was attending high school in Cincinnati when he came to the realization that he was interested in math and physics. He then went to Harvard where he received his BS in physics (1943). He then went on to obtain his MS and PHD (1946, and 1949). He then taught a history of science course at Harvard from 1948 - 1956.

  • A Gift to Science

    A Gift to Science
    Thomas Kuhn as studied many things as a scientist, but none more notable then the work of his second book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Within this book he talks about some ground breaking ideas that change the course of all science. The biggest one is the idea that all scientific research and thought are defined by Paradigms of that time, more easily understood as conceptual world views. This book shows how scientists generally accept a prevailing paradigm and attempt to further it

  • The Impact

    The Impact
    The studies and teachings of his second book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was ground breaking. It pointed out the flaws that would occur while understanding that the scientists would induce the flaws themselves, due to the fact that they allowed the
    current and accepted paradigm to vector the studies and tests leading to insoluble theoretical problems or experimental anomalies and even contradicting the paradigm all together and throwing the scientific community into crisis.

  • The Outcome

    The Outcome
    Thomas Kuhn showed that the paradigm science was a good thing. it would cause changes at an alarming rate instead of the traditional thought process that science is precise, gradual, culminated and based on knowledgable data. But the argument that Thomas Kuhn placed was that the paradigm was the one calling the shots. understanding that most people cannot truly think outside the box or outside the paradigm, it pushes the experiments until flaws start to show then a paradigm shift will occur.

  • Reference/Video

    Video:
    https://youtu.be/-o_C8WQSCmI References:
    - The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Jul 14, 2018: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-S-Kuhn#ref168963
    - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Aug 13, 2004: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/
    - Thomas Kuhn: the man who changed the way the world looked at science. (John Naughton) 18 Aug 2012 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/19/thomas-kuhn-structure-scientific-revolutions