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Birth of Noam Chomskey
Noam Chomskey was born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
First article
At the age of 10 years, Chomskey wrote his first article about the spread of fascism while attending Oak Lane Country Day School. -
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University of Pennsylvania
At the age of 16, he started attending the University of Pennsylvania. His greatest influence during these years was a linguistic professor named Zellig Harris. Here, Chomsky wrote his BA thesis titled "Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew", where Harris was a major influence. -
Marriage
While at the University of Pennsylvania, he married fellow student Carol Schatz. -
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Harvard University
Starting in 1951, Chomskey was admitted to the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. During his stint here, he wrote his first academic articled called "Systems of Syntactic Analysis", which appeared in The Journal of Symbolic Logic. -
Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania
Even Chompskey hadn't attended the University of Pennsylvania for four years, he submitted a thesis on transformational grammar and was awarded a Ph.D. -
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In 1955, through a recommendation of a friend, he started teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Here, his career took off, starting with his first published book call "Syntactic Structures". Although his work caused much upheaval during the current science community, he received my accommodations from his peers and universities. -
National Science Foundation fellowship
In 1958, Chomskey started a National Science Foundation fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study. -
MIT's Graduate Program in linguistics
In 1960 while at MIT, he help establish their graduate program in linguistics -
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Anti-Vietnam War Sentiments
Beginning in 1962, he became very active is politics, main speaking up against the Vietnam war. During the following decade, he spoke out and wrote many essays and short books against the war in Vietnam. He even went to the streets to help protest and was arrested a few times. MIT was also under major pressure from the US government to fire Chomskey, but refused to based on his extensive prominence in linguistics. -
Military-sponsored project
In 1963, Chomskey started helping with a military-sponsored project "to establish natural language as an operational language for command and control." -
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Continual fight against war
During his later years of his career, Chomskey received criticism from many of his peers due to his anti-war rhetoric. Instead of backing down, he further championed his cause against war. After 9/11, he openly criticized the US government of continuing a bad foreign policy which entailed military propaganda to ensure benefits for America. He publicly stated that the "war of terror" was just another excuse for the US to get what they want. -
Literary and Historical Society
Noam Chomsky won an honorary fellowship at the Literary and Historical Society
