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Thomas Kuhn Lifetime
Born Thomas Samuel Kuhn, on July 18th 1922 in Cincinnati Ohio
Died June 17th 1996 in Cambridge Massachusetts. -
Graduated from Harvard University
Thomas Kuhn graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1943. -
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Expanded Education
Thomas Kuhn returned to school at Harvard to gain his Master's Degree in Physics in 1946, and followed that with a Doctorate of Physics in 1949. -
His First Published Book
"The Copernican Revolution" was published in 1957, after Kuhn had been focused on the History of Astronomy. -
Full Time Professor
Thomas Kuhn moved to Berkeley California to take on his first full time professor job at the University of California. -
The Structure of Scientific Revolution Draft
"Kuhn discussed a draft of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions which was published in 1962 in the series “International Encyclopedia of Unified Science” edited by Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap. The central idea of this extraordinarily influential and controversial book is that the development of science is driven, in normal periods of science, by adherence to what Kuhn called a paradigm." (Bird, Alexander, 2018) -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
"The second edition of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was published, including an important postscript in which Kuhn clarified his notion of paradigm. This was in part in response to Masterman’s (1970) criticism that Kuhn had used ‘paradigm’ in a wide variety of ways; in addition, Kuhn felt that critics had failed to appreciate the emphasis he placed upon the idea of a paradigm as an exemplar or model of puzzle-solving." (Bird, Alexander, 2018) -
Thomas Kuhn Educational Video
Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions educational video link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25rGGigObwk (Webb, 2018)
