Karl Popper

Birth of Karl Popper

Jul 28, 1902

Karl Popper, in full, Sir Karl Raimund Popper was born on July 28 1902 in Vienna, Austria. Popper left school at the age of 16 and attended philosophy, psychology at Vienna University.

Vienna University

1918

Popper left the university and did not end up going back to school for another 4 years. At this stage in his life he joined the Association of Socialist School Students and became a Marxist. By this time he was studying psychoanalytic theories of Fried and Alder.

Move to England

1946

Karl moved to England to peruse his teaching at London School of Economics. He later became a professor of logic and scientific method. From that point his reputation and stature as a philosopher of science grew tremendously.

Conjectured & Refutations

1962

Philosophers thought that science must be verifiable. This approach was known as verification was inverted by Popper. He pointed out in his book that no amount of observation agreeing with a hypothesis will ever prove that a single observation will disprove it. He proposed falsifiability, provided the demarcation between scientific and non-scientific.

Death date

Sep 17, 1994

Popper passed away at the age of 92, his death was caused by complications of caner, pneumonia and kidney failure. He was one of the greatest philosophers of science in the 20th century. His work and his history will never go un-noticed and are still talked about to this day.