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Birth
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born to Samuel Louis Kuhn and Minette Kuhn in Cincinnati, Ohio. Tom's father was a World War I Veteran and an industrial engineer. Tom's mother came from a well off New York Family. She worked a freelance editor, and admired Art. Both of Both mr. and mrs. Kuhn were left-wing politics and of Jewish descent. They didn't religiously practice. -
Brother
His Brother Roger was born. -
Attended School
Hessian Hills School. sixth-ninth grade, Tom learned his love of mathematics. -
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Harvard University
Tom Earned his Bachelors of Science in physics degree in 1943. He graduated early with summer class due to the World War II outbreaking. He graduated with the High of Honors, summa cum laude. He then obtained his PhD in Physics in 1949. He started his PhD in 1946. -
World War II War Efforts
Tom had joined a Harvard Newspaper Group, the troop was asked to figure out how to take down German Radar. He traveled to the UK to work in a laboratory and then to Germany to work on this project. -
AHH Moment
Kuhn was to deliver a special speech at Harvard for the undergrads. He realized that he could not understand Aristotle description of Physics, and added Newton's Theory. He being to find the underlying science, which had ultimately came to him on his own journey of ones true self. -
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Taught at Harvard University
During this time and getting his PhD was vital in his shift from Physics to History and philosophy. He was asked to teach during this time by Harvard's University President, James Conant. -
Copernican Revolution
The Copernican Revolution, was published. Kuhn, disagreed with other scientist and argued that the earth was the center of the Solar System, instead of the sun. He discussed this theory in his book. -
Structures to Revolutions
Started a one-year fellowship at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study. Tom wrote a good chunk of his most known literature, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. -
Time at Berkley
While teaching a U.C. Berkley, Tom was named Professor of the History of Science. He taught in both History and philosophy. -
Paradigm Shift
The publication of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is where Kuhn first mentions a paradigm shift. Originally this book was apart of a series called the "Foundation of the unity of Science". He suggested that fields of science do not follow a linear pattern but experience intervals of movement. This what became know as the paradigm Shift. -
Princeton University
Kuhn became the Philosophy and History of Science Professor at Princeton University. -
The Essential Tension
Kuhn published a group of Essays, including Philosophy and History of science topics. -
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kuhn become a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he tough Philosophy. -
Marriage
Wife, Kathryn Muhs They later had three children. They later divorced in 1978.
He married Jehane Barton Burns after he and his 1st wife divorced in 1981. -
Quantum Mechanics
Kuhn published "Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity" in 1988, which was 2nd greatest publication. -
Last call
Upon his death Kuhn was working on his concept of ‘evolutionary conception of scientific change’ and ‘concept acquisition in developmental psychology’. -
Death
Thoma Samuel Kun dide in Cambridge, Massachusetts from Cancer. He had lung and throat cancer for two years prior to his death.
