Tom Kuhn

For the physicist, see Thomas Kuhn.

Tom Kuhn (also known as Dr. Yo) is an American dentist and yo-yo designer based in San Francisco, California. Dissatisfied with the plastic yoyos of the 1970s, and nostalgic for the wooden yoyos of his youth, Kuhn developed the "No-Jive" yoyo, which is popular to the present.[1]

Kuhn's own dental patients provided him support in his yo-yo career, with a lawyer patient advising him on a patent, and another advising he contact NASA regarding new space-age materials.[2] Kuhn continued his dentistry while working in the yo-yo field, displaying his yo-yo collection in the lobby of the Victorian home used as his office.[3]

In 1979, Kuhn set a Guinness World Record for the largest yo-yo, weighing 256 pounds.[4]

References

  1. ^ Discover. Time. 1989. p. 92.
  2. ^ Richard Stim; Lisa Guerin (2008). Wow! I'm in Business: A Crash Course in Business Basics. Nolo. pp. 258–. ISBN 978-1-4133-0654-5.
  3. ^ Neil Baum; Gretchen Henkel (22 October 2010). Marketing Your Clinical Practice: Ethically, Effectively, Economically: Ethically, Effectively, Economically. Jones & Bartlett Publishers. pp. 54–. ISBN 978-1-4496-5397-2.
  4. ^ David A. Boehm (1 November 1989). Guinness Book of World Records, 1990. Sterling. p. 315. ISBN 978-0-8069-5791-3.