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Thomas Kuhn is born
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Event 1: Kuhn PHD
After completing his master's degree in Physics at Harvard in 1946, Kuhn continued his education completing his doctorate in 1949. His thesis was The Cohesive Energy of Monovalent Metals as a Function of the Atomic Quantum Defects. This in turn resulted in Kuhn being elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard. -
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Event 2: Taught at UC Berkeley
Berkeley. In 1956 Kuhn left Harvard because he had yet to be offered tenure, and Berkeley had offered him a position to be an assistant professor in both Philosophy and History Departments. -
Event 3: Full Time Professor Berkeley
Kuhn was promoted to a full time professor at UC Berkeley. This gave him the opportunity to his growing compassion for the philosophy of science. This is where he first shared the rough draft to a colleague "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" The Encyclopedia Britannica states "he argued that scientific research and thought are defined by “paradigms,” or conceptual world-views, that consist of formal theories, classic experiments, and trusted methods." -
Kuhn taught at princeton
In 1964 Kuhn left Berkeley to take up the position of M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at Princeton University. -
Event 4: Collection of essays
A collection of Kuhn’s essays in the philosophy and history of science was published in 1977, with the title The Essential Tension taken from one of Kuhn’s earliest essays in which he emphasizes the importance of tradition in science. -
Taught at MIT
In 1983 he was named Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at MIT. Kuhn continued throughout the 1980s and 1990s to work on a variety of topics in both history and philosophy of science. -
Thomas Kuhn dies
Kuhn died at the age of 73. He passed in his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For the previous two years he had been ill and battling cancer in his bronchial tubes and throat.