Thomas kuhn

Thomas Kuhn

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  • BIRTH

    BIRTH
    Thomas Kuhn was born July 18,1922 in the city of Cincinnati Ohio.

  • PRIMARY SCHOOL

    PRIMARY SCHOOL
    Kuhn graduated from a private school knows as the Taft school in Watertown, CT, in 1940

  • BACHELORS DEGREE

    BACHELORS DEGREE
    He attained his Bachelors degree in physics from Harvard in 1943

  • MASTERS

    MASTERS
    Kuhn attained his Masters degree in physics from Harvard in 1946

  • PHD

    PHD
    Kuhn earned his PHD in physics from Harvard in 1949

  • FIRST BOOK

    FIRST BOOK
    Kuhns publishes his first book "The Copernican Revolution." The book addressed Kuhn's own studies on Copernicus.

  • PROFESSOR

    PROFESSOR
    Berkeley offers Kuhn a professor position teaching the History of Science.

  • STRUCTURES OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

    STRUCTURES OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
    Kuhn wrote about the history of science. Kuhn rejected the idea of what he refered to as "normal science." and insted argued that sciense was defined by paradigms, or conceptual creation and ideology.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn8cCDtVd5w

  • PRINCETON

    PRINCETON
    In 1964, Kuhn took a job at Princeton University teaching Philosophy and History of Science.

  • ESSENTIAL TENSION

    ESSENTIAL TENSION
    In 1977 Kuhn wrote Essential Tension in which he addresses how periods of history are filled with innovation while others see very little innovation, as well as how knowledge is captured by students and educators.

  • MIT

    MIT
    In 1979 Kuhn left Princeton and took a position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as Professor of Philosophy.

  • CANCER

    CANCER
    1994 Kuhn became diagnosed with lung cancer.

  • DEATH

    DEATH
    Kuhn died in 1996 after loosing his battle with lung cancer.

  • WORKS CITED

    WORKS CITED
    Thomas Kuhn. INTELECOM, 1998. Film. Kuhn, T.; Conant, J.; Haugeland, J. (eds). “Thomas Kuhn.” 2004. Web. Marcum, James A. Thomas Kuhn’s Revolution an Historical Philosophy of Science . London ;: Continuum, 2005. Print. Nickles, Thomas., and Nickles, Thomas. Thomas Kuhn. Cambridge, U.K. ;: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Print.