- Born
- December 7, 1928
- Died
- June 18, 2024 (aged 95)
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Also known as
- Avram Noam Chomsky
- Titles
- 105 titles
Biography
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and political activist. He was an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as one of the fathers of modern linguistics. Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political dissident and an anarchist.
