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Born
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born July 18, 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. -
Harvard Bachelors Degree
In 1943, Thomas Kuhn graduated Harvard, summa cum laude, with a bachelors degree in Physics -
Masters Degree from Harvard
Thomas Kuhn graduated from Harvard with a Masters in Physics in 1946. -
Doctorate in Physics from Harvard
1949 was the year Thomas Kuhn graduated Harvard with a Doctorate in Physics -
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Philosophy of Science at Harvard
From 1951 to 1956, Thomas taught Philosophy of Science at Harvard University -
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University of California at Berkeley
In 1956, Thomas left Harvard to teach at the University of California at Berkeley where he again taught Philosophy of Science. -
The Copernican Revolution
This was Thomas's first book and it was published in 1957. It analyzed the Copernican Revolution and discussed Ptolemaic and Keplerian systems of astronomy. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
In 1962, Thomas Kuhn published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In this publication, Kuhn discussed the cycle of science and introduced anomalies, paradigms and incommensurability. This is by far his most influential and important work. -
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Princeton University
From 1964 until 1979, Kuhn was Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at Princeton University in New Jersey. -
The Essential Tension
Kuhn's essays on the Philosophy and History of Science were published as The Essential Tension in 1977. -
Black - Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity
This book discussed the early history of quantum theory (1894-1912) and was published in 1978 -
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1979 through 1991, Kuhn taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
Death
Thomas Kuhn died June 17, 1996 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States while working on a second philosophical monograph on evolutionary conception of scientific change and concept acquisition in developmental psychology.
