![]() ![]() Office of Scientific Research and Development in Europe. After graduation, he worked on radar for the Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard and later for the U.S. degree in physics from Harvard University in 1943 with summa cum laude. He attended the Hessian Hills School in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, a liberal school that encouraged students to think independently, and graduated from The Taft School in Watertown, CT, in 1940, where he became aware of his serious interest in mathematics and physics. ![]() Kuhn, who was trained as a hydraulic engineer at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT), and his wife Minette. Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Samuel L. Thomas Kuhn, Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research? (1970) Thomas Kuhn – Early Years “Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.” He is most famous for his controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term “ paradigm shift“, which has since become an English-language idiom. ![]() On July 18, 1922, American physicist, historian, and philosopher of science Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born. ![]()
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