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Early Life of Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Kuhn was born July 18, 1922 in Ohio Cincinnati to Samuel Kuhn and Minette Kuhn. His father was an engineer who graduated from Harvard and MIT while his mother graduated from Vassar collage. Both mother and father were of Jewish decent but they did not practice there religion. Thomas Kuhn was a straight student and was admitted to Harvard university. He knew he needed to major in mathematics or physics he decided on physics as his major. -
Thomas Kuhn Education
Thomas Kuhn graduated Harvard in 1943 with the highest honors with a BS in physics. He spent the remainder of world war 2 researching radar between Harvard and Europe. In 1946 he received his master's in physics and in 1949 he obtained his doctorated in Physics as well. His thesis for his doctorate was the cohesive energy of monovalent metals as a function of the atomic quantum defect. Kuhn was elected to the prestigious Society of fellows at Harvard another member was W.V. Quine. -
Thomas Kuhn as a teacher
In 1956 Thomas Kuhn taught a class in science for undergraduates in the humanities, part of the general education in science developed by James the B. Conant, The president of Harvard. The course was centered around the historical case studies, and was Thomas Kuhn's first opportunity to study historical scientific texts in . In 1957 Kuhn published his first book The Copernican revolution. In 1961 Kuhn became a full professor at the university of California Berkeley having moved there in 1956. -
Thomas Kuhn's work and death
in 1962 Kuhn's draft of the structure of scientific revolutions which was published in the series "International Encyclopedia of Unified Science". Edited by Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap. The central idea of the book was that the development of science is driven, in normal periods of science what Kuhn called "paradigm" the function of paradigm was to supply puzzles for scientists and give them tools to solve them. Before his death in 1996 Kuhn was working to a second philosophical monograph.