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Noam Chomsky

  • 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.