-
Birth
Thomas Kuhn is born -
Teaching
Kuhn begins teaching the philosophy of science at Harvard. After this he would go on to teach at University of California, Princeton University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ending his teaching career in 1991 -
The Copernican Revolution
Kuhn's first book describing the paradigm shift of heliocentrism, in which Copernicanism replaced the ptolemaic model of the solar system. -
Paradigm Shift
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is published. In this book, Kuhn outlines his notion of a paradigm shift. This is when a prevailing idea becomes incomprehensible with a new theory presented within a scientific field -
Death
The great scientist philosopher Thomas Kuhn Dies