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Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born on July 18th, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Thomas Kuhn grew up in Watertown, CT. Where he graduated from "The Taft School" in 1940. He decided to pursue a degree in Physics at Harvard University.
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Thomas Kuhn obtained his BS in physics from Harvard University in 1943.
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Thomas Kuhn instructed History of Science for 8 years at Harvard. Kuhn later taught philosophy and history at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Thomas S. Kuhn obtained his PhD in Physics in 1949 after achieving his masters in 1946 studying under John Van Vleck.
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In 1962, Thomas Kuhn published his book "The structure of Scientific Revolutions" his most well known piece of work. In this book Thomas discusses the idea of Paradigm and Paradigm shift, the cyclic patterns between Normal Science and Extraordinary Science. Normal science is just that "normal" it is the paradigm we are used to and scientists make their rules and hypothesis off of. While extraordinary science is the break through the abnormal the shift away from everyday known science.
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A great video on the work done by Thomas Kuhn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tasVTgZc9Gw
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In 1994, Kuhn was diagnosed with lung cancer, and passed away in 1996 in Cambridge CT.
