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Kuhns Birth
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Kuhn Earns BA
Kuhn earned his BA in physics from Harvard University -
Kuhn in Europe
"In the summer of 1943, Kuhn joined the Radio Research Laboratory’s theoretical group. Based at Harvard, his group was tasked with devising countermeasures against enemy radar. He was soon sent to work in a laboratory in the United Kingdom. Later he traveled with a Royal Air Force officer to France for a few weeks to study recently captured German radar installations, then carried on into Germany itself" (Famous Scientist). -
Kuhn Earns PHD
Kuhn earned a PHD in physics from Harvard University. is thesis was The Cohesive Energy of Monovalent Metals as a Function of the Atomic Quantum Defects. This in turn resulted in Kuhn being elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard. -
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Kuhn begins teaching the Philosophy of Science at Harvard University
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Kuhn begins teaching the Philosophy of Science at the University of California Berkeley
Kuhn begins teaching the Philosophy of Science at the University of California Berkeley. Berkeley had offered him a position to be an assistant professor in both Philosophy and History Departments -
Kuhn writes The Copernican Revolution
Thomas Kuhn wrote “The Copernican Revolution” in 1957, in which he studied Copernicus’ Heliocentric theory proposal and its’ impact on society during the Renaissance. -
Professor Kuhn
Berkeley promoted Kuhn to a full professor of History of Science. Kuhn originally wanted to be a professor of philosophy, but settled for the history position. -
Kuhn writes The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the most cited academic books of all time. Kuhn’s contribution to the philosophy of science marked not only a break with several key positivist doctrines, but also inaugurated a new style of philosophy of science that brought it closer to the history of science" (Bird). -
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Kuhn teaches at Princeton University
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Kuhn teaches at MIT
Kuhn taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
Cancer
Kuhn is diagnosed with lung cancer -
Kuhns death
Kuhn dies at the age of 73. -
Sources
Bird (2018, October 31). Thomas Kuhn (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Stanford Edu. Retrieved January 3, 2022, from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/ Famous Scientists. (2018, August 16). Thomas Kuhn - Biography, Facts and Pictures. Retrieved January 3, 2022, from https://www.famousscientists.edu/thomas-kuhn/ Hoyningen-Huene, P., 1990, “Kuhn’s conception of incommensurability” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 21: 481–92.