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On July 18th, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born. His father, Samuel Louis Kuhn, was an industrial engineer, graduated both Harvard and MIT, as well as fought in World War 1. Thomas's mother was Minette Kuhn, she was a graduate of Vassar College and heir to a wealthy New York family.
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Kuhn earned bachelor's degree in 1943
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Kuhn earned bachelor’s (1943) and master’s (1946) degrees in physics at Harvard University but obtained his Ph.D. (1949) there in the history of science. -
He taught the history or philosophy of science at Harvard (1951–56), This is the same University that he had earned Bachelor to PhD
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His first book, The Copernican Revolution (1957), Kuhn studied the development of the heliocentric theory of the solar system during the Renaissance. -
Berkeley promoted Kuhn to a full professor of History of Science. Interesting enough Famous Scientists states, "This actually infuriated him, because he wanted to be a professor of Philosophy. In the end, however, he agreed to accept the position in History."
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, he argued that scientific research and thought are defined by paradigms. This is his second book. -
Kuhn’s later works were a collection of essays, The Essential Tension (1977), and the technical study Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity (1978).
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On June 17, 1996, Thomas Kuhn died at the age of 73. He passed in his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. he had been ill and battling cancer in his bronchial tubes and throat.