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Thomas Kuhn's childhood
From kindergarten through fifth grade, he was educated at Lincoln School, a private progressive school in Manhattan, which stressed independent thinking rather than learning facts and subjects. He attended a private progressive school – Hessian Hills School. It was here that, in sixth through ninth grade, he learned to love mathematics. He left Hessian Hills in 1937. He graduated from The Taft School in Watertown, CT, in 1940. -
Thomas Samuel Kuhn is born
Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Samuel L. Kuhn, an industrial engineer, and Minette Stroock Kuhn, both Jewish. -
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Thomas Kuhn in College
He obtained his BSc degree in physics from Harvard College in 1943, where he also obtained MSc and Ph.D. degrees in physics in 1946 and 1949, respectively, under the supervision of John Van Vleck. He later taught a course in the history of science at Harvard from 1948 until 1956, at the suggestion of university president James Conant. -
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Thomas Kuhn's teaching career
After leaving Harvard, Kuhn taught at the University of California, Berkeley, in both the philosophy department and the history department. In 1964, he joined Princeton University as the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Philosophy and History of Science. He served as the president of the History of Science Society from 1969–70. In 1979 he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy, remaining there until 1991. -
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The death of Thomas Kuhn
In 1994 Kuhn was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died in 1996.