Thomas Kuhn - July 18, 1922 to June 17, 1996

By Stett0426

  • Thomas Kuhn was born July 18, 1922

    Thomas Kuhn was born July 18, 1922
    Thomas Samuel Kuhn born July 18, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Samuel Louis Kuhn and Minette Kuhn.
    Home. https://www.famousscientists.org/thomas-kuhn/.

  • Education

    Kuhn's education career started in physics, then proceeded to history of science and progressed from there to philosophy to science.
    Thomas S. Kuhn. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://iep.utm.edu/kuhn-ts/.

  • College Degrees

    Thomas graduated from Harvard with a bachelors in physics in 1943, and went on to receive his master's in physics in 1946 and then his doctorate in 1949.
    Thomas S. Kuhn. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://iep.utm.edu/kuhn-ts/.

  • First book, The Copernican Revolution

    First book, The Copernican Revolution
    After working at Harvard as an assistant professor, he turned his focus to eighteenth century matter theory, then onto the history of astronomy. He published his first book, The Copernican Revolution, in 1957.
    Bird, A. (2018, October 31). Thomas Kuhn. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/.

  • Began teaching at University of California as Berkeley

    Thomas began teaching at the University of California after accepting a job in the philosophy department, teaching the history of science. His tenure wasn't renewed at Harvard due to the popularity of his book.
    Bird, A. (2018, October 31). Thomas Kuhn. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/.

  • Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend

    In 1961, Kuhn and Feyerabend began discussing the draft of Kuhn's book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which was soon published in 1962 in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. The main idea of this book was that science is "driven by a paradigm."
    Bird, A. (2018, October 31). Thomas Kuhn. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/.

  • Paradigm and Paradigm Shifts

    Thomas Kuhn believed that paradigm were puzzles for scientists to solve and provide essential tools for their solutions. He thought that when a crisis in science happened, it gave scientists a chance to solve the problem and provide a better solution for their crisis to prevent it from happening again.
    Bird, A. (2018, October 31). Thomas Kuhn. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/.

  • The Structure of Scientific Revolution

    The Structure of Scientific Revolution
    He believed that there were several stages in his revolution:
    Normal Science
    Model Drift
    Model Crisis
    Model Revolution
    Paradigm Change
    Adel, N. (2016, June 30). THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION -Thomas Kuhn. SlideShare. https://www.slideshare.net/nouranadd/the-structure-ofscientific-revolution-thomas-kuhn.

  • Began teaching at Princeton University

    Kuhn moved to Princeton University and began teaching Philosophy and History of Science
    Home. https://www.famousscientists.org/thomas-kuhn/.

  • Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

    Thomas continued his teaching career as he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was the Professor of Philosophy.
    Home. https://www.famousscientists.org/thomas-kuhn/.

  • Thomas Kuhn died June 17, 1996

    Thomas Kuhn died of cancer on June 17, 1996 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He had been suffering from throat and lung cancer for two years.
    Home. https://www.famousscientists.org/thomas-kuhn/.

  • Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L70T4pQv7P8
    (This video was published May 27, 2020. I put the year as 2020 as I wasn't sure what date to use it had many different timelines throughout.)