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Born December 7th, 1928
Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, PA on December 7th, 1928 as Avram Noam Chomsky -
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Attends the University of Pennsylvania
Noam wrote a B.A. thesis about "Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew" which he revised for his M.A. thesis and published as a book. -
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Attends Harvard University
Noam Chomsky earned his doctoral in philosophy at Harvard University, studying under the philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine. -
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Professor at MIT
Noam Chomsky taught classes in linguistics and philosophy at MIT -
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Columbia University
He worked as a travelling professor for Columbia University -
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Fellow at Princeton University
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Published a review of B. F. Skinner's Book Verbal Behavior
One of his first major works which caused him to receive recognition in linguistics -
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Noam Chomsky forms the basis of evolutionary linguistics
Noam Chomsky revolutionized the way linguists look at language -
Peter Ludlow interviews Noam Chomsky regarding his philosophy of the mind