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Thomas Kuhn was born July 18,1922 in the city of Cincinnati Ohio.
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Kuhn graduated from a private school knows as the Taft school in Watertown, CT, in 1940
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He attained his Bachelors degree in physics from Harvard in 1943
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Kuhn attained his Masters degree in physics from Harvard in 1946
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Kuhn earned his PHD in physics from Harvard in 1949
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Kuhns publishes his first book "The Copernican Revolution." The book addressed Kuhn's own studies on Copernicus.
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Berkeley offers Kuhn a professor position teaching the History of Science.
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Kuhn wrote about the history of science. Kuhn rejected the idea of what he refered to as "normal science." and insted argued that sciense was defined by paradigms, or conceptual creation and ideology.
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In 1964, Kuhn took a job at Princeton University teaching Philosophy and History of Science.
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In 1977 Kuhn wrote Essential Tension in which he addresses how periods of history are filled with innovation while others see very little innovation, as well as how knowledge is captured by students and educators.
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In 1979 Kuhn left Princeton and took a position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as Professor of Philosophy.
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1994 Kuhn became diagnosed with lung cancer.
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Kuhn died in 1996 after loosing his battle with lung cancer.
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