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Thomas Kuhn Birthday
On July 18, 1922, Minette Kuhn a Graduate from Vassar College and Samuel Louis Kuhn an industrial engineer and investment consultant was blessed with a baby boy and they named him Thomas Samuel Kuhn. -
Graduated from Harvard
Spring of 1943, Thomas Samuel Kuhn earned his bachelors degree in Physics and graduated with a summa cum laude from Harvard. -
Master's degree in Physics
In 1946, Thomas Samuel Kuhn earned his Master's degree in Physics from Harvard University. -
Phd in History of science
In 1949, Thomas Samuel Kuhn earned his Phdc. in History of Science from Harvard -
The Copernican Revolution
In 1957, Thomas Samuel Kuhn published his book called The Copernican Revolution in which he analyzed and develop the Heliocentric theory of the solar system during the Renaissance era. -
Paradigm Shift
In 1962, Thomas Samuel Kuhn published his book called the Structure of Scientific Revolution. This was one of his most import at and famous contribution to Philosophy of Science. Kuhn’s famous theory the paradigm shift introduced us to a whole new way of how science works. A paradigm shift is when a widely recognized scientific claim reached a level where it needs further research and the data gathered was significant enough for a revolution to occur which results to a new way of doing things.