Thomas Kaun, Born July 18, 1922, and died in 1996.

By Drew22k
  • Thomas Kaun was born.

    This was the day that Thomas Kaun was born.
  • Thomas Kaun published his first book The Copernican Revolution (1957).

    This is Thomas Kaun's first book he published in 1957. This was an earlier idea of what become his revolution theory of science. This book, along with all of Kaun's other works, still hold up today.
  • Thomas Kaun's early work 'The Essential Tension'.

    This article he published shows the big difference between what Kaun calls normal science and the few Einstein's in the world. These normal scientists use the paradigm every day and make science continue to advance.
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) was written and published by Thomas Kaun.

    Thomas Kaun wrote the book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962. According to Kuhn, history showed that most scientific research, in whatever field of science, is guided by a set of principles and core beliefs about which there is a general consensus (Bouwman P. 1). This book changed the way we think about the philosophy of science. The revolutionary was we think about the process of science is called Paradigms. Kaun was a pioneer in the way we think about science as a whole today.
  • Thomas Kaun's death from cancer.

    He died after battling cancer for 2 years. His contributions to the science world will never be forgotten.
  • Youtube Video of Thomas Kaun