Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky Birth

1928

Avram Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the East Oak Lane area. William Chomsky's father and mother, William and Elsie Simonofsky, were Jewish refugees. William had left the Russian Empire in 1913 to avoid being drafted. Before going to college, he worked in sweatshops and Hebrew elementary schools in Baltimore.

1945

1945

In 1945, when Chomsky was 16 years old, he started a general program of study at the University of Pennsylvania. There, he studied philosophy, logic, and languages.

Carol Doris Schatz

1951

Chomsky started dating Carol Doris Schatz, who he had known since he was a child, in 1947. In 1949, they got married. When Chomsky became a Fellow at Harvard, he and his wife moved to the Allston neighborhood of Boston, where they lived until 1965, when they moved to the Lexington suburb.

Legacy

1956

Noam Chomsky is often referred to as the "Father of modern linguistics". He argues that all humans share the same underlying linguistic structure, irrespective of sociocultural differences

Career

1966

Chomsky became a full professor at MIT in 1961. In 1966, he was named the Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics, and in 1976, he was given the title of Institute Professor. He stopped working as a professor and became a professor emeritus in 2002.

Citation page

2023

McGilvray, James A.. "Noam Chomsky". Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 May. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky. Accessed 4 June 2023.