Published “Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions” in Nature Neuroscience — cited 2,201 times.
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Imre Lakatos was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its "methodology of proofs and refutations" in its pre-axiomatic stages of development, and also for introducing the concept of the "research programme" in his methodology of scientific research programmes.
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science · Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science (1922–1974) · mathematician · philosopher · university teacher · physicist · also Imre Lakatos, Imre Lipschitz, Lakatos Imre, Lakatos
Born 9 November 1922 · Died 2 February 1974 · Q296249
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Published “Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions” in Nature Neuroscience — cited 2,201 times.
Published “Once-Yearly Zoledronic Acid for Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 2,426 times.
Published “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes” — cited 1,938 times.
One devoted to physical sciences and Lakatos's general programme for rewriting the history of science, with a concluding critique by his great friend Paul Feyerabend, and the other devoted to economics
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Died 1974-02-02.
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Published “Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes” in Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge — cited 2,679 times.
The 1965 Colloquium included well-known speakers delivering papers in response to Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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And he continued as editor until his death in 1974, after which it was then edited jointly for many years by his LSE colleagues John W
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From the University of Cambridge; his doctoral thesis was entitled Essays in the Logic of Mathematical Discovery, and his doctoral advisor was R
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Studied at University of Cambridge, Doctor of Philosophy (1961).
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Was appointed to a position in the London School of Economics (LSE), where he wrote on the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of science
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Studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University (1949).
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Studied at University of Debrecen (1944).
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Born 1922-11-09.
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