Sir karl popper biography for kids

Karl Raimund Popper (July 28, 1902 - September 17, 1994), was an Austrian-born, Britishphilosopher of science. He was also a social and political thinker of considerable stature, a staunch defender of liberal democracy[?] and the principles of social criticism upon which it is based, and an implacable opponent of authoritarianism.

He is best known for his repudiation of the classical observationalist-inductivist account of science, his espousal of falsifiability as a criterion of demarcation between science and non-science, and his defence of the 'Open Society[?]'.

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Born in Vienna in 1902 to middle-class parents of Jewish origins, Karl Popper was educated at the University of Vienna. He took a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1928, and taught in secondary school from 1930 to 1936. In 1937, concerns about the growth of Nazism led him to emigrate to New Zealand, where he became lecturer in philosophy at Canterbury University College[?], Christchurch.

In 1946, he moved to Engl