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Thomas Kuhn Was Born
July 18th 1922 Thomas Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. His parents were Minette Scroock Kuhn and Samuel L. Kuhn. His father was hydraulic engineer at Harvard and MIT. His mother was the intellectual thinker. -
Thomas Kuhn Attends Hessian Hills School
Thomas Kuhn's family moved to Westchester County. He attended Hessian Hills School in sixth grade. It was a liberal school that encouraged students to think independently. -
Thomas Kuhn Attends Taft School
Thomas Kunh attended Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut. He started in tenth grade. He found this school to not be interesting and later described it at "lousy". Yet he graduated from Taft School in 1940. -
Thomas Kuhn Attends Harvard University
Thomas Kuhn graduated from Harvard University in 1943. He graduated with a B.S. in Physics and he also obtained a M.S. and Ph.D. degree as well. He was finally done with Harvard in 1949. -
Thomas Kuhn's First Job
Thomas Kuhn started his career in a Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard, the U.S. Office of Scientific Research, and Development in Europe. He worked with a radar team. During his graduation from Harvard he taught the history of science there from 1948-1956. -
Thomas Kuhn Proposes To His Fiance
Thomas Kuhn proposes to his fiance fiancé Kathryn (Kay) Muhs, and they were married shortly after. They had three children Sarah, Elizabeth, and Nathaniel. This was between 1952-1958. -
Thomas Kuhn Awarded A Prestigious Title
Thomas Kuhn was given the prestigious title of Guggenheim Fellow in 1954. -
Thomas Kuhn Writes His Frist Book
In 1957 Thomas Kuhn writes his first book The Copernican Revolution. In his book he proved that the claims of other prominent scientists and stated that the earth was at the center of the solar system. -
Thomas Kuhn Was Promoted
Thomas Kuhn was promoted to be a professor at the University of California. He taught the history of science 1961. He was a part of the philosophy department and the history department. -
Thomas Kuhn Writes His Second Book
Thomas Kuhn wrote his second book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962. His work on this was first published as part of the Foundations of the Unity of Science series. His work talked about competing paradigms and how they are frequently in commensurable. This book is regarded as one of the most influential and frequently cited academic books. This is where he introduced the paradigm shift. -
Thomas Kuhn Becomes the M. Taylor Pyne Professor
Thomas Kuhn Becomes the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Philosophy and History of Science at Princeton University in 1964. -
Thomas Kuhn Wrote His Third Book
Thomas Kuhn Wrote His Third Book called The Essential Tension in 1977. The book was a collection of his essays on philosophy and the history of science. -
Thomas Kuhn Becomes The Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor
Thomas Kuhn was promoted to become the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1979 to 1991. -
Thomas Kuhn Was Awarded Another Honor
Thomas Kuhn was awarded the George Sarton Medal by the History of Science Society in 1982 -
Thomas Kuhn Writes His Fourth Book
Thomas Kuhn writes his fourth book Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity in 1988. This became his second historical monograph on the early history of quantum mechanics. -
Thomas Kuhn Speaking
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Thomas Kuhn Works On His Second Philosophical Monograph
Thomas Kuhn worked on his second philosophical monograph which dealt with evolutionary conception of scientific change and concept acquisition in developmental psychology. -
Thomas Kuhn Passes Away
Thomas Kuhn is diagnosed with lung cancer and shortly after passes away. -
References
National Academy of Sciences. “National Academy of Sciences.” PNAS: General Information, www.nasonline.org/publications.
“Thomas Kuhn Speaking (1995).” YouTube, 16 May 2017, youtu.be/UH_kXuhRIoQ.
