Cognitive Science (in the wide sense)

Avram Noam Chomsky

U.S.A. / December 7, 1928
Theoretical Linguist; Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

He proposed "the theory of generative grammar" and marked the beginning of a major revolution in linguistics, which provided an ambitious program to explain the structure of the human mind. He has encouraged the formation of cognitive science by giving it a basis in his theory.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

1928	Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
1951	M. A., Graduate School, University of Pennsylvania
1955	Ph. D. in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor, MIT
1958	Associate Professor, MIT
1961	Professor, MIT
1976-present	Institute Professor, MIT

AWARDS AND HONORS

1967	Honorary Degrees from the University of London and the University of Chicago
1970	Honorary Degrees from Loyola University of Chicago, Swarthmore College, and Bard College
1972	Honorary Degree from Delhi University (India)
1984	APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions from The American Psychologist Association Others Fellow of the British Psychologist Association and members of many academies

MAJOR WORKS

1957	Syntactic Structures
1965	Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
1975	Reflections or Language
1980	Rules and Representations
1981	Lectures on Government and Binding
1986	Knowledge of Language

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