Noam chomsky

Noam Chomsky (1928-)

By jazmynriley1

  • Chomsky is born

    Avram noam Chomsky was born on December 7th 1928 in Philadelphia,Pa his father was William Chomsky and his mom was Elsie Simonofsky, his father was a Hebrew scholar and his mother was a teacher, he had a younger brother named David also.

  • Chomsky is born

    Noam Chomsky was born December 7th 1928 in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania to his mother Elsie Chomsky and his father William Chomsky. His dad was a Hebrew scholar and his mother was a teacher.

  • enrolled at University

    Noam enrolled at the university of Pennsylvania where he studied linguistics and philosophy, and earning his bachelors and masters degree

  • marriage

    Chomsky got married to his childhood friend Carol Doris Schatz who was a linguist, they had three children together

  • college life

    Chomsky enrolled in University of Pennsylvania where he earned his bachelors and masters degree in linguistics and philosophy, he later continued at the university and earned a PhD in linguistics in 1955. he also spent time at Harvard conducting research for his doctoral thesis(which led to his book on linguistics "Syntactic Structures"

  • Harvard

    While studying to get his PhD in linguistics he spent time at Harvard conducting research for his doctoral thesis. He spent four years at Harvard as a junior fellow and led to his book in linguistics,"Syntactic Structures" and then he decided to leave Harvard.

  • leaving Harvard

    in 1955 Chomsky left Harvard for Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and within a few years of being there he earned a full professorship and he worked there for half a century

  • published review

    Chomsky published a review of B.F skinners book"Verbal Behavior" and Chomsky argued against skinners view of language as learned behavior.
    [link text]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnbLwV5aJBw

  • protesting

    Chomsky was involved in a political protest against U.S involvement in the Vietnam war in 1962 and in 1967 he joined a public debate on the united states foreign policy and he published an essay criticizing the countries involvement

  • arrested

    in 1973 Chomsky was arrested on more than one occasion for his anti-war activism

  • retirement

    Noam Chomsky retired from MIT after being a professor there for 50 years