Editing Karl Popper (section)

=== Academic life ===
[[File:Sir KARL POPPER 1902-1994 Philosopher lived here 1946-1950.jpg|thumb|right|[[English Heritage]] [[blue plaque]] at Burlington Rise, Oakleigh Park, London]]
In 1937, Popper finally managed to get a position that allowed him to emigrate to New Zealand, where he became lecturer in philosophy at [[University of Canterbury|Canterbury University College]] of the [[University of New Zealand]] in [[Christchurch]]. It was here that he wrote his influential work ''[[The Open Society and Its Enemies]]''. In [[Dunedin]] he met the Professor of Physiology [[John Eccles (neurophysiologist)|John Carew Eccles]] and formed a lifelong friendship with him. In 1946, after the [[Second World War]], he moved to the United Kingdom to become a [[reader (academic rank)|reader]] in [[logic]] and [[scientific method]] at the [[London School of Economics]] (LSE), a constituent School of the [[University of London]], where, three years later, in 1949, he was appointed professor of logic and scientific method. Popper was president of the [[Aristotelian Society]] from 1958 to 1959. He resided in [[Penn, Buckinghamshire]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bondi |first=Herman |title=Obituary |journal=Nature |date=October 1994 |volume=371 |issue=6497 |pages=478 |doi=10.1038/371478a0 |pmid=7935759 |bibcode=1994Natur.371..478B |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/371478a0.pdf}}</ref>

Popper retired from academic life in 1969, though he remained intellectually active for the rest of his life. In 1985, he returned to Austria so that his wife could have her relatives around her during the last months of her life; she died in November that year. After the [[Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft]] failed to establish him as the director of a newly founded branch researching the philosophy of science, he went back again to the United Kingdom in 1986, settling in [[Kenley]], Surrey.{{sfn|Miller|1997}}