The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Karl Popper

1902–1994 · Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society

• Kyoto Prize
• Professor at King's College London
• Professor at LSE

Profession

Philosopher, Mathematician, Sociologist, Professor

Worked at

LSE, King's College London, University of London, University of Canterbury

Studied at

Vienna, Cambridge

Studied under

Moritz Schlick, Karl Bühler

Prizes

Kyoto Prize (1992), Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1980), Fellow of the British Academy, Sonning Prize (1973), Benjamin E. Lippincott Award (1976), Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize (1981), Prix Alexis de Tocqueville (1984), Catalonia International Prize (1989), Goethe Medal (1992), Otto Hahn Peace Medal (1993), Montyon Prize (2003), Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria

Once clashed with Wittgenstein, who reportedly brandished a poker at him.

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