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Thomas Kuhn Birth
Kuhn was born on July 18, 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio. -
Kuhn earns his Ph.D.
Kuhn went to Harvard and earned both his bachelor's (1943) and master's degrees in physics (1946). A couple of years later in 1949, he earned his Ph.D. in the history of science. Then he ended up teaching history of science there at Harvard University. Reference:
“Thomas S. Kuhn.” Edited by The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 14 July 2020, www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-S-Kuhn. -
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Professor of the Philosophy of Science
Thomas Kuhn taught philosophy of science at the University of California at Berkeley from 1956 to 1964, Princeton University from 1964 to 1979, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1979 to 1991. References:
“Thomas S. Kuhn.” Edited by The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 14 July 2020, www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-S-Kuhn. -
Kuhn publishes The Copernican Revolution
In 1957, Kuhn published his first book, The Copernican Revolution, in which he studied the how the heliocentric theory of the solar system was developed during the time of the Renaissance. The book gave a good analysis of the Copernican Revolution. Reference:
“Thomas S. Kuhn.” Edited by The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 14 July 2020, www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-S-Kuhn. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
In 1962, Kuhn published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions along with Paul Feyerabend. The main idea of this book is that "the development of science is driven, in normal periods of science, by adherence to what Kuhn called the 'paradigm'". VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQPsc55zsXA References:
Bird, Alexander. “Thomas Kuhn.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 31 Oct. 2018. -
Kuhn Dies
Kuhn died on June 17, 1996 in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of 73.
