Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born in 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and studied physics at Harvard, earning his PhD in 1949. While a graduate student, he was asked to teach a course on the history of science for non-scientists, an experience that led him to realize that the actual practice of science bore little resemblance to the tidy narrative of progress presented in textbooks. This insight became the seed of his life's work. He taught at Harvard, Berkeley, Princeton, and MIT, becoming one of the most influential philosophers of science in the twentieth century. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.