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Thomas S. Kuhn was born in 1922
Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 18, 1922 to Samuel Louis Kuhn and Minette Stroock Kuhn. His father was an industrial engineer, and his mother was a graduate of Vassar College and worked as a freelance writer. His love for physics lead him on a path to earn a degree in physics from Harvard in 1943. “Thomas Kuhn: Biography and Scientific Revolutions.” Study.com, 2018 -
The Copernicus Revolution, Thomas S. Kuhn, 1957
Kuhn’s first book, the Copernican Revolution is one of “the bestselling books ever written on the history of science.” First Kuhn starts with Copernicus’ work about the revolutions of the heavenly spheres in 1543. It ends with Newtons mathematical principles of natural philosophy in 1687. Kuhn explains how scientists have religious and philosophical obligations that are important to the justification of scientific knowledge. He gave his students “a more accurate image of science.” -
Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 1962
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was Kuhn’s second book that was published in 1962. He describes the development of paradigm shifts in science in four stages, normal science—extraordinary research—adoption of a new paradigm—aftermath of the scientific revolution. A paradigm defines problems and procedures for solving problems that are part of a single research tradition. -
Thomas Kuhn speaking 1995 (YouTube)
https://youtu.be/UH_kXuhRIoQ
“Thomas Kuhn speaking about his famous book ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’.” (Kuhn, The road since Structure, Ed. James Conant and John Haugeland, university of Chicago, 2000). -
Thomas Kuhn died in 1996
In the last years of his life, Thomas Kuhn suffered from lung cancer. He passed away at the age of 73 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.