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Karl Popper

Born in 1902 in Vienna, Austria, Karl Popper was a British philosopher of science, widely considered to be one of the most important of the twentieth century. A large part of his professional life was spent as a professor at the prestigious London School of Economics, where he taught until his academic retirement in 1969. It was while there that he received the honor of being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1965 and, even afterwards, the additional recognition of being elected into the Royal Society as a Fellow in 1976. Popper never returned to his native Austria, the country he had left due to the burgeoning threat of being a Jew at the dawn of Anschluss, the German annexation of Austria in 1938 (he spent almost 10 years living in New Zealand). That event changed the course of his life, even intellectually, as witnessed by the new direction his work in social and political philosophy took.

Among the list of notable features of Popper’s work could be included the fact that, unlike most other philosophers, he is a well-recognized and respected name among today’s high-tech scientists. He is also remembered for having founded the philosophical school of thought he referred to as critical rationalism.

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