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Karl Popper born on July 28th, 1902 in Vienna, Austria.
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One of Popper's great contribution to the philosophy of science. For in this book he "argues that science should adopt a methodology based on falsifiability, because no number of experiments can ever prove a theory, but a reproducible experiment or observation can refute one."(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Scientific_Discovery)
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Another one of Popper's influential books which was initially written as a paper in 1936 but published as a book in 1957. In "The Poverty of Historicism" Popper defines historicism as: “an approach to the social sciences which assumes that historical prediction is their principal aim…” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poverty_of_Historicism)
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In 1937, Popper was able to get the position at Canterbury University College of the University of New Zealand in Christchurch which allowed him to emigrate into New Zealand as well.
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This book along with another are Popper's more "social and political thought in literature". (https://philpapers.org/browse/karl-popper)
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"Popper wrote of the search for truth as "one of the strongest motives for scientific discovery." Still, he describes in Objective Knowledge (1972) early concerns about the much-criticised notion of truth as correspondence." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper)
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"Austria awarded him the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria in 1986, and the Federal Republic of Germany its Grand Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit, and the peace class of the Order Pour le Mérite." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper) The picture however is Popper with Professor Cyril in 1994 receiving the honorary Doctor's degree of Charles University in Prague.
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Popper died due to complications of cancer, pneumonia and kidney failure at 92 in Kenley, United Kingdom.
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Karl Popper has done many things to impact the scientific community when it comes to different ways of thinking and new social and political views on the world. From going into talking of changing the scientific method into more of a falsification and going into the call out on even Plato in "The Open Society and Its Enemies". He has challenged our ways of thinking to not be always with the norm but more with the reality. Especially with most of his scientific views being more with Einstein.
