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Bachelor's degree
Thomas Kuhn completes his bachelor's degree at Harvard University in Physics. -
Masters Degree
Thomas Kuhn continues on to earn a Master's degree in Physics at Harvard University. -
The Copernican Revolution
The Copernican was Thomas Kuhn's first writing. He studied the heliocentric theory during the Renaissance. He explained that the heliocentric model reformed the fundamental beliefs in astronomy and radically changed theories in other sciences as well. He argued the change led to a societal shift where philosophy, religion, and values changed due to people no longer seeing Earth as the center of God's creation. -
Doctorate degree
Thomas Kuhn finishes a Doctorate degree in the history of science at Harvard University. -
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Thomas Kuhn; a professor.
Thomas Kuhn becomes a professor and teaches students the Philosophy of Science at Harvard University. He then leaves Harvard in 1956 and begins teaching the Philosophy of science to students at the University of California Berkeley. -
The Essential Tension
Thomas Kuhn explains in a new writing that the development of science is essential tension in scientific research between practicing normal science verses scientific revolutions. He distinguished a difference between normal science and revolutionary science. In normal science, theories were not questioned but in revolutionary science theories are questioned. Change also occurs very quickly in revolutionary science, while in normal science it is gradual. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
In his book, he stated that scientific research is defined by paradigms or world views. He believed this included trusted methods and normal experiments people were used to. He became famous for the term "paradigm shift" which was how changes in society influenced scientific theories. Science throughout history could be characterized by these different scientific paradigms, or world views, which had their own formal theories, trusted methodologies, and classic experiments.