Editing Noam Chomsky (section)

===Academic achievements, awards, and honors===
{{See also|List of honorary degrees awarded to Noam Chomsky}}
[[File:Chomsky and Krieger.jpg|thumb|Chomsky receiving an award from the president of the [[Nuclear Age Peace Foundation]], David Krieger (2014)]]
In 1970, the London ''[[The Times|Times]]'' named Chomsky one of the "makers of the twentieth century".{{sfn|Baughman et al.|2006}} He was voted the world's leading public intellectual in The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll jointly conducted by American magazine ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' and British magazine [[Prospect (magazine)|''Prospect'']].{{sfn|''Foreign Policy''|2005}} ''[[New Statesman]]'' readers listed Chomsky among the world's foremost heroes in 2006.{{sfn|Cowley|2006}} In 2011, the [[US Peace Memorial Foundation]] awarded [[The US Peace Prize]] to Chomsky, "whose antiwar activities for five decades both educate and inspire."<ref>{{cite web|title=US Peace Prize |url=https://www.uspeaceprize.org/}}</ref>

In the United States he is a [[Member of the National Academy of Sciences]], the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], the [[Linguistic Society of America]], the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]], the [[American Philosophical Association]],{{sfn|Contemporary Authors Online|2016}} and the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Chomsky|access-date=June 9, 2021|website=[[American Philosophical Society]]|archive-date=June 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609220943/https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Chomsky|url-status=live}}</ref> Abroad he is a corresponding fellow of the [[British Academy]], an honorary member of the [[British Psychological Society]], a member of the [[Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina]],{{sfn|Contemporary Authors Online|2016}} and a foreign member of the Department of Social Sciences of the [[Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts]].{{sfn|SASA foreign membership|2003}} He received a 1971 [[Guggenheim Fellowship]], the 1984 [[American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology]], the 1988 [[Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences]], the 1996 [[Helmholtz Medal]],{{sfn|Contemporary Authors Online|2016}} the 1999 [[Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute)|Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science]],{{sfn|MIT Linguistics Program|2002}} the 2010 [[Erich Fromm Prize]],{{sfn|Deutsche Presse-Agentur|2010}} and the [[British Academy]]'s 2014 [[Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics]].{{sfn|British Academy|2014}} He is also a two-time winner of the [[NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language]] (1987 and 1989).{{sfn|Contemporary Authors Online|2016}} He has also received the Rabindranath Tagore Centenary Award from [[The Asiatic Society]].{{sfn|''Soundings''|2002}}

Chomsky received the 2004 [[Carl von Ossietzky|Carl-von-Ossietzky]] Prize from the city of [[Oldenburg (city)|Oldenburg, Germany]], to acknowledge his body of work as a political analyst and media critic.{{sfn|Inventio Musikverlag}} He received an honorary fellowship in 2005 from the [[Literary and Historical Society (University College Dublin)|Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin]].{{sfn|Soundtracksforthem: Interview|2005}} He received the 2008 President's Medal from the Literary and Debating Society of the [[National University of Ireland, Galway]].{{sfn|Desmond Tutu to speak to Litndeb|2009}} Since 2009, he has been an honorary member of [[International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters]] (IAPTI).{{sfn|Honorary Members of IAPTI}} He received the University of Wisconsin's A.E. Havens Center's Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship{{sfn|UoW–M|2010}} and was inducted into [[IEEE Intelligent Systems]]' AI's Hall of Fame for "significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems."{{sfn|IEEE Xplore|2011}} Chomsky has an [[Erdős number]] of four.{{sfn|Erdös Number at Oakland Univ|2017}}

In 2011, the US Peace Memorial Foundation awarded Chomsky the US Peace Prize for anti-war activities over five decades.{{sfn|US Memorial Peace Foundation}} For his work in human rights, peace, and social criticism, he received the 2011 [[Sydney Peace Prize]]<!--"unfailing courage, critical analysis of power and promotion of human rights"-->,{{sfn|Huxley|2011}} the [[Sretenje Order]] in 2015,{{sfn|''Politika''|2015}} the 2017 [[Seán MacBride Peace Prize]]<!--"for his tireless commitment to peace, his strong critiques to U.S. foreign policy, and his anti-imperialism"-->{{sfn|IPB|2017}} and the Dorothy Eldridge Peacemaker Award.{{sfn|MIT Linguistics Program|2002}}

Chomsky has received honorary doctorates from institutions including the [[University of London]] and the [[University of Chicago]] (1967), [[Loyola University Chicago]] and [[Swarthmore College]] (1970), [[Bard College]] (1971), [[Delhi University]] (1972), the [[University of Massachusetts]] (1973), and the [[International School for Advanced Studies]] (2012).{{sfnm|1a1=Lyons|1y=1978|1pp=xv–xvi|2a1=Barsky|2y=1997|2pp=120, 143}} Public lectures given by Chomsky include the 1969 [[John Locke Lectures]],{{sfn|MIT Linguistics Program|2002}} 1975 [[Whidden Lectures]],{{sfn|Barsky|1997|p=156}} 1977 [[Huizinga Lecture]], and 1988 [[Massey Lectures]].{{sfn|MIT Linguistics Program|2002}}

Various tributes to Chomsky have been dedicated over the years. He is the [[:wikt:eponym|eponym]] for [[Megachile chomskyi|a bee species]],{{sfn|Pensoft (bee)}} [[Pristimantis chomskyi|a frog species]],{{sfn|Páez|2019}} an [[Meanings of minor planet names: 52001–53000#270|asteroid]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Small-Body Database Lookup |url=https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=52270&view=OPD |access-date=August 17, 2024 |website=ssd.jpl.nasa.gov}}</ref> and a building complex at the Indian university [[Jamia Millia Islamia]].{{sfn|JMI|2007}} Actor [[Viggo Mortensen]] and avant-garde guitarist [[Buckethead]] dedicated their 2003 album ''[[Pandemoniumfromamerica]]'' to Chomsky.{{sfn|Viggo Mortensen's Spoken Word & Music CDs}}