Noam Chomsky

December 7, 1928 (97 years old)

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

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.