Musician Dictionary

Noam Chomsky

American linguist and activist (born 1928)

DescriptionAmerican linguist and activist (born 1928)
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Born1928-12-07
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BirthplacePhiladelphia East Oak Lane Philadelphia
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AreaUnited States
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CountryUS
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CitizenshipUnited States
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Occupationphilosopher computer scientist political writer philologist historian opinion journalist media critic anthropologist psychologist linguist university teacher human rights defender educator writer
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Member ofGerman Academy of Sciences Leopoldina American Association for the Advancement of Science American Philosophical Society Royal Society of Canada National Academy of Sciences Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Academia Europaea American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Awardshonorary doctor of Loyola University Chicago Thomas Merton Award Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award Erich Fromm Prize Seán MacBride Peace Prize Honorary doctorate from University of Toronto APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology Honorary Doctorate of University of Buenos Aires honorary doctorate from Columbia University Orwell Award Carl von Ossietzky Prize honorary doctor of the University of Uppsala Albertus-Magnus professorate honorary doctor of Amherst College honorary doctor of the University of Athens honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews Associate Member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences Sydney Peace Prize William James Fellow Award Helmholtz Medal James Joyce Awards Honorary doctor of the University of Bologna Sretenje Order honorary doctor of the Peking University honorary doctor of the University of Calcutta honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America honorary doctor of Harvard University US Peace Prize Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada honorary doctor of the University of Chile Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society honorary doctorate from the McGill University Guggenheim Fellowship honorary doctorate of the Autonomous University of Madrid Honorary doctorate from university of Florence Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics
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Also known as

Avram Noam Chomsky Chomsky N. Chomsky Noam Chomsky / AK Press Noam Chomsky/AK Press

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