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Wrote first book The Copernican Revolution
Thomas Kuhn wrote his first book called The Copernican Revolution. His publisher from Harvard writes, "With a constant keen awareness of the inseparable mixture of its technical, philosophical, and humanistic elements, Mr. Kuhn displays the full scope of the Copernican Revolution as simultaneously an episode in the internal development of astronomy, a critical turning point in the evolution of scientific thought, and a crisis in Western man's concept of his relation to the universe and to God." -
Published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn wrote the book The Structure of Scientific Revolution. Publisher at University of Chicago Press writes, "Kuhn challenged long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don’t arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation but that the revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of “normal science,” as he called it." -
Awarded 'George Sarton Medal'
The Sarton Medal is "the most prestigious award of the History of Science Society." Thomas Kuhn was honored as the George Sarton Medalist in '82 for his lifetime of scholarly achievement. -
Working on Second Philosophical Monograph Until Death
Through the '80s and '90s Thomas Kuhn was working on a variety of historical and philosophical topics in science while honored with being the Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at MIT. Mr. Bird writes, "At the time of his death in 1996, he was working on his second philosophical monograph that dealt with, ‘evolutionary conception of scientific change’ and ‘concept acquisition in developmental psychology’."
