2. Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Kuhn was a detective
he'd gotten his doctorate
in physics from Harvard
University.
after he'd gotten his doctorate,
3. he'd done a major mind shift
and morphed to become a
historian of science.
He held professorships at
the University of California,
Berkeley, then at Princeton,
and finally at MIT.
4. Normal Science
Interestingly, Kuhn found there's
a lot of what's called normal science.
Normal science takes an idea or
approach and fleshes it out to build
our knowledge base.
5. An idea that virtually every scientist
working in the field took for granted.
But every once in a while, what can
be called a paradigm shift happens...
Normal Science
Paradigm Shift
9. that allowed the second older group to see with
fresh eyes.
Often, it allowed them to bring their seemingly
unrelated
prior knowledge to the table in new ways that
helped them to innovate.