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Thomas Sebeok

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American semiotician (1920-2001)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1920 to 2001 · aged 81
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Thomas Albert Sebeok was a Hungarian-born American polymath, semiotician, and linguist. As one of the founders of the biosemiotics field, he studied non-human and cross-species signaling and communication.

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Dezső Sebeok and Vera Perlmann and their son Thomas (c. 1924)Dezső Sebeok and Vera Perlmann and their son Thomas (c. 1924)

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Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

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Thomas Albert Sebeok was a Hungarian-born American polymath, semiotician, and linguist. As one of the founders of the biosemiotics field, he studied non-human and cross-species signaling and communication. He is also known for his work in the development of long-term nuclear waste warning messages, in which he worked with the Human Interference Task Force to create methods for keeping the inhabitants of Earth away from buried nuclear waste that will still be hazardous 10,000 or more years in the future.

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United States
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Academics
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Academic
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deceased
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Lived 1920 to 2001 · aged 81
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