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Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996)

By IsaiahF29

  • Birth of Thomas Kuhn

    Thomas Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Minette Kuhn, and Samuel Kuhn

  • Kuhn Finishes Bachelors Degree

    Kuhn attended Harvard and had received a bachelors in Physics

  • Kuhn receives his Masters

  • Kuhn receives his Doctorate

    Kuhn had received his Doctorate from Harvard in The History of Science
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    Kuhn becomes a Teacher

    A couple years after receiving his Doctorate, Kuhn starts teaching at Harvard University about The Philosophy of Science
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    Kuhn changes schools

    Kuhn decided to teaching at Harvard and decided to teach at the University of California Berkley, in the same field he did at Harvard

  • Kuhn writes The Copernican Revolution

    Thomas Kuhn wrote “The Copernican Revolution” in 1957, in which he studied Copernicus’ Heliocentric theory proposal and its’ impact on society during the Renaissance

  • Kuhn writes The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

    Thomas Kuhn wrote “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” in 1962, in which he coined the term “paradigm” or “paradigm shift” as a way of describing how societal changes skew the perception of scientific theories, which it then assisted in creating excellent scientific theories
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    Kuhn Teaches at Princeton

    Kuhn then after decided to teach at Princeton University in Philosophy of Science
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    Kuhn teaches at MIT

  • The Death of Thomas Kuhn