What is Paradigm shift?
A '''paradigm shift''' was first called that way by [[Thomas Kuhn]]. He is a [[physicist]] and [[Philosophy|philosopher]]. A paradigm shift is a big change in [[Size|big]] [[Concept|concepts]] and practices in a [[Scientific model|model]], [[system]], or [[scientific discipline]]. It can also be known as a '''[[scientific revolution]]'''. == Examples == * [[1543]] - [[Scientist|Scientists]] changed from [[Thought|thinking]] the [[Earth]] was at the [[Position|center]] of the [[universe]] to thinking that the [[Sun]] was at the center of the universe.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-02387-6_2|title=Elektrotherapie des Herzens|last=Kühn|first=Heinz|chapter=Ansprache des Ministerpräsidenten Heinz Kühn |date=1970|publisher=VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften|isbn=978-3-663-00474-5|location=Wiesbaden|pages=13–19|doi=10.1007/978-3-663-02387-6_2}}</ref> * [[1880]] - The [[germ theory of disease]] overtook the [[miasma theory]], a [[theory]] that diseases were caused by bad [[air]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=von|first1=Herausgegeben|last2=K|first2=STRUC|date=July 1884|title=ART. XVIII.–Mittheilungen aus dem kaiserlichen Gesundheitsamte|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00000441-188407000-00018|journal=The American Journal of the Medical Sciences|volume=1|issue=7|pages=187–201|doi=10.1097/00000441-188407000-00018|issn=0002-9629}}</ref> * [[1964]] - Scientists [[Discovery (observation)|discover]] the [[cosmic microwave background radiation]], supporting the theory of the [[Big Bang]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Penzias|first1=A. A.|last2=Wilson|first2=R. W.|date=1965-07-01|title=A Measurement of Excess Antenna Temperature at 4080 Mc/s.|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1965ApJ...142..419P|journal=The Astrophysical Journal|volume=142|pages=419–421|doi=10.1086/148307|bibcode=1965ApJ...142..419P|issn=0004-637X}}</ref> == Related pages == * [[Innovation]] * [[Mindset]] * [[Paradigm]] * [[World view]] == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Science-related lists]] [[Category:Natural sciences]] [[Category: