Thomas Kuhn Biography
1922-1996

The man who mildly shocked Christian Science
Life in Formal Science of Thomas Kuhn, in 5 major jumps: Born July 18, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.


1948 Asst. professor education and history of science at Harvard
1949 Ph. D. physics from Harvard University
1956 University of California-Berkeley
1961 Professor of History of Science at California-Berkeley
1979 Professor of philosophy and history of science at MIT in Boston


Kuhn wrote The Structure of Scientific Revolutions before 1962 while being graduate student in theoretical physics at Harvard. It sold some one million copies in 16 languages. Thomas Kuhn revived thought about paradigm shift and inherently about conceptual schemes.


Thomas Kuhn never intended to end the paradigm 'Christian Science'. Alhough generally respected in the world of science he had not the drive of Friedrich Nietzsche. Kuhnian Paradigm Shifts are revolutions expanding and NOT replacing the western Virtual Reality 'Christian Science'. Kuhn was quite content as famous professor.


Kuhn suffered from cancer during the last years of his life. He died on Monday, June 17, 1996, at the age of 73 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.



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