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Birth
Was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania -
Started College
Got admitted to University of Pennsylvania -
Master Thesis
Began working on his Thesis "The Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew". -
Period: to
The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (LSLT)
This was his Thesis when he was a junior fellow at Harvard University -
Awarded PHD
Chomsky received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955 after submitting one chapter of LSLT as a doctoral dissertation. -
Work at MIT
Was a professor at MIT on a machine translation project. -
Published book
Published his work "Syntactic Structures". -
Review
He review of Verbal Behavior, by B.F. Skinner, the dean of American behaviourism, -
Full professor
He gained full professor at MIT. -
Published second book
Noam published his second book, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. -
Published third book
He published his third book, Cartesian Linguistics. -
Moving up
Chomsky was moving up in the ranks at MIT. He was professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics. -
Top dog
He was granted full institue professor where he stayed untill he retired. -
Retirement
Noam retired as institute professor from MIT.