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Edward Klima
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<h2 id="education-and-career">Education and career</h2> <p>Klima graduated from James Ford Rhodes High School in Cleveland, Ohio in 1949. He studied linguistics at <a href="/facts/Dartmouth_College/JLk2nNaN">Dartmouth College</a>, earning his bachelor's degree in 1953. Two years later, he received a master's degree in the same subject from <a href="/facts/Harvard_University/Lhy9L1cx">Harvard University</a>. Starting in 1957, Klima worked as an Instructor at the <a href="/facts/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology/Xk49vNA8">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> under <a href="/facts/Noam_Chomsky/3rtpzlER">Noam Chomsky</a>. After earning his Ph.D in linguistics from Harvard University in 1965, he joined the linguistics department at the <a href="/facts/University_of_California,_San_Diego/srMClpNv">University of California, San Diego</a>. Later he also became an adjunct professor at the <a href="/facts/Salk_Institute_for_Biological_Studies/eY7raMMp">Salk Institute for Biological Studies</a>, where his wife, Ursula Bellugi, was a professor, and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience (of which Klima acted as associate director).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p><p>While at MIT, he supervised Jeffrey S. Gruber.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Fox, Margalit (2008-10-03). "Edward S. Klima, Sign Language Expert, Dies at 77". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-10-06. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/04klima.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/04klima.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Fox, Margalit (2008-10-03). "Edward S. Klima, Sign Language Expert, Dies at 77". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-10-06. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/04klima.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/04klima.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award summary <a href="http://lcn.salk.edu/team/apa_award.pdf" target="_blank">http://lcn.salk.edu/team/apa_award.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Klima CV at the Salk Institute <a href="http://lcn.salk.edu/team/klima_cv.pdf" target="_blank">http://lcn.salk.edu/team/klima_cv.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Jeffrey S. Gruber (September 1965), Studies in lexical relations (PDF), Wikidata Q112659099 <a href="http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/dm/theses/gruber65.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/dm/theses/gruber65.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>