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Birth
Thomas Kuhn was born July 18, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio -
Thomas Kuhn is intrigued by Aristotle's work
Thomas Kuhn taught science for humanities in the fall of 1948 at Harvard University. He read many historical science texts and stumbled upon Aristotle's work. This is where he was enlightened and understood that one must understand the intellectual frameworks within which scientists work. He found great interest in Aristotle and understood Aristotle's work wasn't what was perceived. This insight was the backbone that drove Kuhn's book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. -
The publishing of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn put down his thoughts on paper covering the different stages science goes through. Thomas Kuhn is known mostly because of his idea of paradigm shifts. He believed scientific theories are made according to a structure, or paradigm. It is a set of rules or fundamentals a scientific field follows. This idea has been accepted by many in the philosophy of science and holds true today. -
Death
Thomas Kuhn died June 17, 1996 (aged 73) Cambridge, Massachusetts
