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.
Awards & recognition
- BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award · 2018
- Seán MacBride Peace Prize · 2017
- Neil and Saras Smith Medal — Linguistics · 2014
- Albertus-Magnus professorate · 2011
- Sydney Peace Prize · 2011
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- US Peace Prize · 2011
- Erich Fromm Prize · 2010
- Thomas Merton Award · 2010
- honorary doctor of the Peking University · 2007
- Carl von Ossietzky Prize · 2004
- honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel · 2003
- Benjamin Franklin Medal · 1999
- Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science · 1999
- Helmholtz Medal · 1996
- William James Fellow Award · 1989
- Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences · 1988
- Orwell Award · 1987
- APA Award — Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology · 1984
- Associate Member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences
- Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
- Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- honorary doctor of Amherst College
- honorary doctor of Harvard University
- honorary doctor of Loyola University Chicago
- honorary doctor of the University of Athens
- Honorary doctor of the University of Bologna
- honorary doctor of the University of Calcutta
- honorary doctor of the University of Chile
- honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews
- honorary doctor of the University of Uppsala
- honorary doctorate from Columbia University
- honorary doctorate from the McGill University
- Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge
- Honorary doctorate from university of Florence
- Honorary doctorate from University of Toronto
- honorary doctorate of the Autonomous University of Madrid
- Honorary Doctorate of University of Buenos Aires
- Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society
- James Joyce Awards
- Sretenje Order
Filmography42 titles
Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle
The Book of Harth
The Occupation of the American Mind
Israelism
The Last Days of the USSR
Brexitannia
Requiem for the American Dream
Shadow World
The Corporation
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Explained
The Weight of Chains 3
Propaganda: Engineering Consent
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Better Left Unsaid
I Am
Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal
Four Horsemen
¡Las Sandinistas!
The Weight of Chains 2
I Am (Not) a Monster
Post Truth Times
Teenage Paparazzo
Lake of Fire
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
Ethos
The Divide
We Are Many
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
The Brainwashing of My Dad
After Work
Programming the Nation?
Real Time with Bill Maher
2020: The Dumpster Fire
Her Socialist Smile
WBCN and the American Revolution
Standing Army
Ever Again
Salvia Divinorum: A Western Approach
Discordia