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Thomas Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio
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Although his previous degrees were in physics he switches to history in science this leading more into philosophy of science
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His first book that studied the development if the heliocentric theory.(The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica)
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His most influential piece of work that has had the biggest impact on philosophy of science. Introduces the term Paradigm. "It is a package of claims about the world, methods for gathering and analyzing data, and habits of scientific thought and action."(Godfrey-Smith)
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Thomas Kuhn died in Cambridge, Mass.