Thomas Kuhn, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, studied physics at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1949. By this time, he had grown interested in the history and philosophy of science, which he subsequently taught at Berkeley, Princeton, and MIT. In 1962, he published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions; his other works include The
Copernican Revolution (1957) and The Essential Tension (1977).
