Thomas Kuhn

Details

Instance of

human

Born

18 July 1922

Died

17 June 1996

Place of birth

Cincinnati

Place of death

Cambridge

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Thomas, Samuel

Family name

Kuhn

Father

Samuel Kuhn

Spouse

Jehane Barton Burns, Kathryn Muhs

Movement

Western philosophy

Field of work

philosophy of science, analytic philosophy, history of science

Occupation

physicist, historian of science, philosopher of science, university teacher, philosopher

Citizenship

United States

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship, John Desmond Bernal Prize, George Sarton Medal, honorary doctor of the University of Padua

archives at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries

cause of death

lung cancer

described by source

Thomas s. Kuhn: revolutionary theorist of science, Thomas S. Kuhn as Sociologist of Knowledge, Thomas S. Kuhn

doctoral advisor

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

doctoral student

John L. Heilbron, Michael Sean Mahoney

educated at

Harvard University, Harvard University, Harvard University, Hessian Hills School, Taft School, Harvard University

employer

Princeton University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley

ethnic group

Jewish people

influenced by

Carl Gustav Hempel, Jean Piaget, Michael Polanyi, Ludwik Fleck

languages spoken, written or signed

English

manner of death

natural causes

member of

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Harvard Society of Fellows, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, International Academy of the History of Science, National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society

name in native language

Thomas Samuel Kuhn

notable work

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Copernican Revolution

residence

Cambridge, Cincinnati, Berkeley, Princeton

time period

contemporary philosophy

topic's main category

Category:Thomas Kuhn

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