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Birth
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Kuhn's Education
Thomas Kuhn worked for his bachelors and masters in physics from Harvard university between 1943-1946 but earned his PhD. in history of science in 1949. -
Kuhn's Teaching
Thomas Kuhn taught philosophy of science between 1951 and 1997. Some of the prestigious institutions he worked at included Harvard, University California of Berkley, Princeton, and, MIT -
The Copernican Revolution
In Kuhns first book, "The Copernican Revolution", he studied the development of the heliocentric model and how we shifted from one widely accepted theory to another. It is here where the idea for his second book and his definition of paradigms was born. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" is a work published by Thomas Kuhn that defined "paradigms". Kuhn described paradigms as an idea that is widely accepted to be true but over time a new scientific theory is created that becomes the new widely accepted theory. One example is the heliocentric theory.
Kuhn, Thomas. “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.” Macat Library eBooks, 1970, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781912281589. -
Death