Kuhn, Thomas S.
Thomas S. Kuhn papers, 1936-2000.
Kuhn's teaching career is documented in lecture notes for courses in the history and philosophy of science he taught while at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University, and course notes for classes he taught at MIT, including the Nature of Scientific Knowledge (24.05J); Topics in the History of Physical Science (24.270J); Rise of Scientific Cosmology: Aristotle to Newton (24.272J); Problems in the Nature of Explanation (24.851); Philosophy of Scientific Development (24.853); Historical Interpretation of Scientific Thought (24.854J); and Problems in the Philosophy of History (24.855). Kuhn's involvement with the Quantum Physics Project, 1962-1973, is documented in research materials including correspondence with physicists such as Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Max Planck, and Linus Pauling, 1910-1930, and reprints of journal articles by these scientists as well as extensive notes Kuhn took on these sources. There is professional correspondence, 1958-1991, with colleagues, students, publishers, and professional organizations including the National Research Council Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; copies of speeches and lectures he gave; and notes he took at professional meetings. Kuhn's writings are documented in correspondence and drafts of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and Black-body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity.
Thomas S. Kuhn, 1922-1996. S.B. 1943, A.M. 1946, Ph.D. 1949, all in physics, Harvard University, taught at Harvard, 1951-1956, the University of California, Berkeley, 1956-1964, and Princeton University, 1964-1979, before coming to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as professor of philosophy and the history of science. He became the Lawrence S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy in 1983, and emeritus in 1991. His research focused on the principles behind the evolution of science and the nature of scientific change, and the influence of language on the development of science. His many publications include The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (1957), Sources for the History of Quantum Physics (1960), The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change (1977), and Black-body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912 (1978).
Kuhn, Thomas S. Black-body theory and the quantum discontinuity, 1894-1912.
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Copernican revolution.
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of scientific revolutions.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Faculty -- Personal and professional papers.
Quantum Physics Project -- 1962-1973.
Sources for History of Quantum Physics.
Science -- History -- Study and teaching -- 1936-1990.
Science -- Philosophy -- Study and teaching -- 1936-1990.
Science -- Technological innovations -- Research.
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