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Birth
Born into a jewish family in Cincinnati, Ohio. -
Havard Education
A Harvard summa cum laude graduate, Thomas Kuhn graduated from Harvard with a Bachelor of Science in physics. He then went on to get his Master's in 1946 and his Doctorate in 1949. -
Master's in Physics
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Harvard Professor
During this time period Thomas Kuhn became elected into the Society of Fellows at Harvard and went on to teach a class in science at the university. -
Doctorate in Physics
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The Copernican Revolution
Thomas Kuhn's time spent teaching science at Harvard led to his focus on the history of science, followed by the history of astronomy, which in turn led to the publication of this first book, The Copernican Revolution. -
University of California at Berkeley
Thomas Kuhn became a history of science professor with the University of California at Berkeley. There he got introduced to Paul Feyerabend. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolution
Published by University of Chicago Press. Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolution argued that the evolution of the scientific theory is not a linear process but instead a process driven by paradigms and shifts within it. The Structure of Scientific Revolution broke down changes to the scientific processes into multiple phases. The book also coined the term "normal science". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzo8vnxSARg -
Death
Diagnosed with lung cancer in 1994, Thomas Kuhn passed away in 1996. -
References
Bird, Alexander, "Thomas Kuhn", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/thomas-kuhn/. CrashCourse. “The Scientific Revolution: Crash Course History of Science #12.” YouTube, YouTube, 2 July 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzo8vnxSARg.
