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Thomas Kuhn was born in Cincinnati Ohio. He attended school in Ohia and New York.
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Once he graduated high school, he attended Harvard where he focused on his passion for science and received a bachelor's in physics. He continued to study at Harvard and earned his M.S. in physics in 1946 and a Ph.D. in physics in 1949.
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After earning his PHD, he realized that his passion was philosophy. After holding a position at Harvard and Berkeley as an assistant professor, not long after he becomes a full professor at Palo Alto. He goes on to publish The Copernican and The Structure of Scientific Evolution.
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Kuhn's book shook up the scientific community, by challenging what a scientific revolution is. He states that a scientific revolution could only happen if there's enough data is collected and can not be explained by the current theory. -
Before Kuhn, there were few ways to explain scientific change. according to Kuhn, science should not be uniform. Kuhn calls problem-solving for a person's particular time normal science. A mature science, according to Kuhn, experiences alternating phases of normal science and revolutions. -
Kuhn was offered a job at Princeton. He moved to in 1964 and remained there until 1979. From there he returned to MIT as Laurence S. Rockefeller professor of Philosophy
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Thomas Kuhn died of cancer in 1996 at the age of seventy-three.
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Thomas Kuhn, edited by Thomas Nickles, Cambridge University Press, 2002. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/apus/detail.action?docID=217812. Bird, Alexander, "Thomas Kuhn", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2022/entries/thomas-kuhn/.