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Birth
Thomas Kuhn was born on 19 July 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio to parent Samuel L. Kuhn and Minette Stroock Kuhn. -
The Copernican Revolution
The first book that was published by Thomas Kuhn was in 1957 titled "The Copernican Revolution". In Kuhn's writing he gives an analysis of the Copernican Revolution. This revolution described the Ptolemaic system as it transitioned into the well-known Heliocentric system. This laid the foundation for paradigm shifts that he later wrote a book describing. “The Copernican Revolution — Harvard University Press.” Harvard University Press, 2023, www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674171039. -
Professor at University of California, Berkeley
After moving to the University of California, Berkeley in 1956, Thomas Kuhn became of full professor at the university. This was the start of Kuhn's interest in the philosophy of science. During this time, he was introduced to the works of Wittgenstein and Feyerabend. He then finished his draft book that was published in 1962.
Bird, Alexander. “Thomas Kuhn.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2022, plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/#Inco. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn published is book title "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" in 1962. In the book he laid out a now model to scientific progress where periods of normal science could be interrupted by moments of extraordinary science. This moments shows anomalies that discards old science and results in a paradigm shift. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Kuhn, Thomas S. | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. iep.utm.edu/kuhn-ts/#H3. -
The Essential Tension
In 1977, Kuhn published a book titled The Essential Tension where he had a combination of 14 essays. These essays were from before and after his publishing of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. D.H. “Thomas S. Kuhn, the Essential Tension. Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1978. Pp. Xxiii+ 366.” Language in Society, vol. 7, no. 2, Aug. 1978, pp. 291–291, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500005686. Accessed 26 Jan. 2020. -
Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity
Thomas Kuhn published a book in 1987 that covers the development of quantum mechanics. There was a second edition published in 1987 -
Death
Thomas Kuhn passed away at the age of 73 in Cambridge, Massachusetts after his two-year battle with throat and lung cancer.