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1922
Born July 18, 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio. -
1949
Kuhn received a Ph. D. in physics from Harvard University in 1949 and remained there as an assistant professor of general education and history of science. -
1962
Kuhn published his most renown work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. It was initially published in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, subsequently being published as its own book in 1962. Kuhn challenged the current conception of science, which led to his creation of the Kuhn Cycle, which depicts a more accurate representation of how scientific advances are made. Kuhn also introduced his uses of paradigms and paradigm changes or shifts and their relationship to science. -
1982
Kuhn was awarded the George Sarton Medal for a lifetime of scholarly achievement in the History of Science in 1982. The amount of groundbreaking ideas that came from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions alone was incredible but Kuhn devoted his life to science and was awarded many times throughout his life for his contributions. The video linked here does an excellent job of explaining The Kuhn Cycle scientific model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC6ovrpv7o8 -
1983
Kuhn was named Professor of Philosophy at MIT throughout the 1980s and 1990s where he continued his work on a variety of topics in both history and philosophy of science, including the development of the concept of incommensurability. -
1996
Died June 17, 1996 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.