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Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born July 18,1972 in Cincinnati Ohio.
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Kuhn attends The Hessian Hills School that encouraged independent thought.
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At the Taft School Thomas Kuhn discovers a passion for mathematics and physics.
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Kuhn attends Harvard where he attains a B.S in Physics. He also earned his M.S and Ph.D in physics also.
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After earning his Ph.D in Physics he became a Junior Fellow at Harvard and during this time he changed his career from Physics to History and more importantly Philosophy of Science.This change in career was crucial in professional future.
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Thomas Kuhn's starts his career at Harvard's Radio Research Lab, He was also part of the radar team at U.S Office of Scientific Research and Development in Europe.
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At the suggestion of the University President Thomas Kuhn teaches History of Science. Until 1956
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In 1957 Kuhn write a book to refute the claims of prominent scientists that stated that the Earth was at the center of the universe (really???? I thought we figured this out by then!)
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Kuhn is appointed professor of The History of Science at Cal where he was part of both the History and Philosophy departments.
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was published which is considered his most influential work which was part of a series called Foundations of the Unity of Science where he states that competing paradigms are frequently incommensurable.
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Becomes the M. Taylor Pyne Professor at Princeton for History of Science
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His Essays The Essential Tension is published.
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He is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at MIT.
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Thomas Kuhn is diagnosed with lung cancer
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At the time of his death he was working on his second monograph that was dealing with evolutionary conception of scientific change’ and ‘concept acquisition in developmental psychology’.
