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Thomas Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio
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Kuhn publishes his first work, which studies the work of Copernicus in addressing the problems in the Ptolemaic view of the Solar System. Although it was mostly historical in nature, it contained a lot of formative ideas that would influence his later writing.
Kuhn, Thomas. The Copernican Revolution. 1957. -
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One of Kuhn's most important books, The Structure of Revolutions discusses Kuhn's ideas about paradigms and crises in science. As we have already learned, Kuhn's idea was that the structure of science can be broken down into different "paradigms" that pursue their own subjects of research and have certain qualities and methods.
Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 1962. -
Thomas Kuhn left Berkely to act as a professor of Philosophy and History of Science.
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In the published second edition of his work, Kuhn goes into more detail on his definition of a paradigm in response to criticism he had received about his previous use of the word in his book. -
Kuhn published his work, which analyzes the early history of quantum physics. Much of the work discusses the developments created by the German physicist Max Planck. Kuhn later explained that his previously published ideas from The Structure of Scientific Revolution were implicit in his arguments throughout the book, although he did not explicitly mention them.
Kuhn, Thomas. Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity. 1978. -
Thomas Kuhn passed away at the age of 73.
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