Thomas Kuhn July 18, 1922 - June 17, 1996

By markcg

  • Birth of Thomas Kuhn

    On July 18th, 1922 Thomas Kuhn is born to Minette Scrook and Samuel L. Kuhn.

  • Thomas Kuhn graduates from Harvard

    In 1940, Thomas Kuhn enrolled in Harvard University in pursuit of his B.S. in Physics. Thomas Kuhn decided to take summer classes after America had declared war on Japan in WWII. Because of this, Thomas Kuhn graduated summa cum laude in 1943.

  • Thomas Kuhn starts teaching at Harvard

    After graduating in 1943, Thomas Kuhn worked with the Radio Research Laboratory. During this time, not only was Kuhn working towards earning his Masters in Physics, which he did in 1946, but he spent a considerable amount of time working in a war torn Europe. in 1948, with Thomas Kuhn being 1 year away from earning his PhD, he decides to teach the History of Science at his alma mater, Harvard.

  • Thomas Kuhn publishes The Copernican Revolution

    Throughout his life, Thomas Kuhn was most notably known for his orthodox way of approaching science. His book, The Copernican Revolution, is no different. In short words, Kuhn claims the Earth is at the center of our Solar System. He Claims that Nicholas Copernicus' Heliocentric Theory is no more and no less believable than Claudius Ptolemy's Geocentric Theory.

  • Thomas Kuhn publishes The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

    Thomas Kuhn publishes The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    Here we have Thomas Kuhn's most notable piece of work. In this book, Thomas Kuhn discusses what science is and how we approach it. He claims that science is meant to disprove itself. We do not learn in a linear approach, instead everything that we think we know has to be, and eventually can be disproven.

  • Death of Thomas Kuhn

    Throughout his life, Thomas Kuhn had an immense amount of passion for science. Jumping from subject to subject often, he wanted to learn and study new things that interested him. He never had a "method" on how he approached his work. He understood that all work could be as wrong as it is right, even his. on June 17th, 1996 Thomas Kuhn died in Cambridge, Ohio. His theory in paradigm shifts has been widely accepted and taught in many courses.