-
Born
Thomas Kuhn was born July 18,1922 in Cincinnati, OH to a Jewish family. His father was an Industrial Engineer. -
Early Beginnings of School
Throughout kindergarten through fifth grade, he was educated at Lincoln School, a private progressive school in Manhattan,which instilled in him the independent thinking theory.He was then moved to Croton-on-Hudson where he continued his private school education at Hessian Hills School. When he entered sixth through ninth grade, he learned to love mathematics. He left Hessian Hills in 1937. He graduated from The Taft School in Watertown, CT, in 1940 -
College Years
He obtained his SB degree in physics from Harvard University in 1943, where he also obtained SM and PhD degrees in physics in 1946 and 1949. He worked and study under the supervision of John Van Vleck. -
Kuhn's Publishes
His first book was: The Copernican Revolution. Kuhn studied the development of the heliocentric theory of the solar system during the Renaissance. His second book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 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.
"The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica"
Thomas S. Kuhn
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-S-Kuhn -
What was he known for?
Mr. Kuhn was known as the American historian of science noted for The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), one of the most influential works of history and philosophy written in the 20th century.