Bertrand Russell - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1950
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Bertrand Russell

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1950
in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought
Citizenship
United KingdomUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Languages
English
date of birth
5/18/1872
place of birth
Trellech
date of death
2/2/1970
place of death
Penrhyndeudraeth
Lived
97 years

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occupation
  • essayist
  • pedagogue
  • logician
  • epistemologist
  • social critic
  • pacifist
  • university teacher
  • peace activist
  • philosopher of science
  • metaphysician
  • mathematician
  • autobiographer
  • science fiction writer
  • philosopher of language
  • analytic philosopher
  • journalist
  • writer
  • philosopher
  • politician
field of work
  • mathematical logic
  • set theory
  • sociology
  • history of philosophy
  • mathematic
  • philosophy of language
  • philosophy
  • philosophy of science
  • logic
  • religion
  • ethics
  • epistemology
educated at
  • Frederick William University Berlin
    • start time: 1895
    • end time: 1895
  • Trinity College
    • start time: 1890
    • end time: 1894
employer
  • University of Chicago
    • start time: 1938
    • end time: 1939
  • London School of Economics and Political Science
    • start time: 1896
    • end time: 1899
  • University of California, Los Angeles
    • start time: 1939
    • end time: 1940
  • Trinity College
    • start time: 1899
    • end time: 1916
  • Trinity College
    • start time: 1944
    • end time: 1970
  • Barnes Foundation
    • start time: 1941
    • end time: 1942
position held
  • member of the House of Lords
    • start time: 3/3/1931
    • end time: 2/2/1970
work location
  • England
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 5/7/1908
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 2/28/1926
doctoral student
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein
notable work
  • A History of Western Philosophy
  • Wisdom of the West
  • Principia Mathematica
  • The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
  • Proposed Roads to Freedom
  • In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
  • The Problems of Philosophy
  • The Conquest of Happiness
  • Power: A New Social Analysis
  • Justice in war time
  • Marriage and Morals
  • Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
  • Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
  • My Philosophical Development
  • The Principles of Mathematics
  • Human Society in Ethics and Politics
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