Carl Gustav Hempel

Details

Instance of

human

Born

8 January 1905

Died

9 November 1997

Place of birth

Oranienburg

Place of death

Princeton Township

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Carl

Family name

Hempel

Occupation

mathematician, computer scientist, philosopher, essayist, university teacher, epistemologist

Citizenship

Germany, United States

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship, Honorary doctor of the Free University of Berlin, Carus Lectures

cause of death

pneumonia

doctoral advisor

Wolfgang Köhler, Hans Reichenbach

doctoral student

John Alan Robinson, Gerald J. Massey, Adolf Grünbaum, John Earman, Lawrence Sklar, Richard Jeffrey

educated at

University of Göttingen, Heidelberg University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

employer

Princeton University, Yale University, University of Pittsburgh, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Chicago, Queens College

languages spoken, written or signed

German

manner of death

natural causes

member of

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

name in native language

Carl Gustav Hempel

notable work

Philosophy of Natural Science

residence

United States

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