Thomas Kuhn: July 18, 1922 - June 17, 1996

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  • Thomas Kuhn Birth/Death dates and Description

    Thomas Kuhn Birth/Death dates and Description
    Thomas Kuhn was born on the 18th of July 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio and died on the 17th of June 1996. He was an American historian and philosopher of science.

  • Kuhn's educational achievements

    Kuhn obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in physics at Harvard University in the years 1943 and 1946 respectively. He then obtained a Ph.D. in History of science in the year 1949 from the same university. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2024).

  • The Copernican revolution

    The Copernican revolution
    Thomas Kuhn published his first book titled "The Copernican Revolution" in 1957. In this book, Kuhn not only talks about the change from the Ptolemaic to the Copernican planetary system, although that was the central part of the story, but also the change from Aristotelian to Newtonian cosmology (Swerdlow, 2004).