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Thomas Kuhn was born
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Bird, Alexander. Thomas Kuhn. Routledge, 2014, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315710839. Bird, Alexander. Thomas Kuhn. Routledge, 2014, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315710839.
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Thomas Kuhn was well educated with a masters and doctorates of physics from Harvard
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Thomas Kuhn published his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. This book is one of the most cited books of all time. This book inaugurated a new style of philosophy of science with periods of stable growth punctuated by revisionary revolutions.
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Thomas Kuhn is a significant influential philosophers of science in the twentieth century. He wrote the book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" in 1962. This book integrated a new style of philosophy of science bringing it closer to the history of science. He held that there are periods of stable growth punctuated by revisionary revolutions. His theories were also controversial with the 'incommensurability thesis", where differing periods suffer from failure of comparability.
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Thomas Kuhn passed on