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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorInstitute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)
Dates
May 20, 1930 – present
Authorized Form of Name
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)
Additional Forms of Names
Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation
IAS
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton)
Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, New Jersey)
Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation
Institutional History
Abstract
The Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger amd Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation was founded in 1930. It was founded on two principles: 1) those individuals who work at the Institute should be selected on the basis of their abilities alone and with no regard to race, creed, or gender; and 2) the Institute should enable the curiosity-driven pursuit of knowledge with no view to its immediate utility or the expectation of meeting predetermined goals. The Institute is comprised of the schools of historical studies, mathematics, natural sciences, and social science.
Institute directors
1930-39, Abraham Flexner.
1939-47, Frank Aydelotte.
1947-66, J. Robert Oppenheimer.
1966-76, Carl Kaysen.
1976-87, Harry Woolf.
1987-91, Marvin Goldberger.
1991-03, Phillip Griffiths.
2004-12, Peter Goddard.
2012-present, Robbert Dijkgraaf.
Important Dates
May 20, 1930Certificate of incorporation for the "Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation" was filed with the State of New Jersey, Princeton (N.J.).
1931 – 1957John von Neumann was on staff.
1932Creation of the School of Mathematics, the Institute's first school, Princeton (N.J.).
1932 – 1955Albert Einstein was on staff.
1933 – 1955Hermann Weyl was on staff.
1935 – 1977H. Marston Morse was on staff.
1936 – 1936Stanislaw Ulam was on staff.
1936 – 1938Eugene Feenberg was on staff.
1937 – 1946Valentine Bargmann was on staff.
1945 – 1948Irving Segal was on staff.
1947 – 1967J. Robert Oppenheimer was on staff.
1948 – 1949Jack Steinberger was on staff.
1948 – 1949Kenneth Watson was on staff.
1948 – 1949Freeman Dyson was on staff.
1948 – 1950Kenneth Case was on staff.
1948 – 1950Norman Kroll was on staff.
1948 – 1956Jule Charney was on staff.
1949 – 1950Joaquin "Quinn" Luttinger was on staff.
1949 – 1950Bryce DeWitt was on staff.
1949 – 1950Robert Kraichnan was on staff.
1949 – 1951Roy Glauber was on staff.
1949 – 1966Chen Ning "Frank" Yang was on staff.
1950 – 1951Keith Brueckner was on staff.
1950 – 1951Eugen Merzbacher was on staff.
1950 – 1952Francis Low as on staff.
1951 – 1952Murray Gell-Mann was on staff.
1951 – 1953Tsung-Dao Lee was on staff.
1952 – 1954Yoichiro Nambu was on staff.
1952 – 1954Toichiro Kinoshita was on staff.
1953 – 1955Stanley Deser was on staff.
1953 – presentFreeman Dyson has been on staff.
1954 – 1955Leon Cooper was on staff.
1954 – 1956Richard Arnowitt was on staff.
1956 – 1957Gerald "Gary" Feinberg was on staff.
1958 – 1959David Pines was on staff.
1958 – 1963Tai Tsun Wu was on staff (1958-1959; 1960-1961; and 1962-1963).
1959 – 1960James Glimm was on staff.
1960 – 1963Tsung-Dao Lee was on staff.
1963 – 1964James Hartle was on staff.
1966 – presentStephen Adler was been on staff.
1967 – 1967Arthur Jaffe was on staff.
1967 – 1968Daniel Freedman was on staff.
1967 – 1969Bruno Coppi was on staff.
1967 – 1980Marshall Rosenbluth was on staff.
1968 – 1969William Bardeen was on staff.
1968 – 2005John Bahcall was on staff.
1969 – 1972Curtis Callen was on staff.
1969 – 1986Roger Dashen was on staff.
1972 – 1974Thomas Spencer was on staff.
1973 – 1975Erick Weinberg was on staff.
1981 – 1983Gary Horowitz was on staff.
1982 – 1985Nathan Seiberg was on staff.
1982 – 1987Andrew Strominger was on staff.
1987 – 1989Nathan Seiberg was on staff.
1987 – 1991Marvin "Murph" Goldberger was on staff.
1987 – presentEdward Witten has been on staff.
1987 – presentThomas Spencer has been on staff.
1989 – 2000Frank Wilczek was on staff.
1997 – presentNathan Seiberg has been on staff.
2001 – presentJuan Maldacena has been on staff.
Places
Headquarters
Subjects
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Citations
Historical information from Institute for Advanced Study Mission and History page (https://www.ias.edu/about/mission-history).
Relationships
People
Employees & Officers
Member; Professor of Theoretical Physics; and New Jersey Albert Einstein Professor.
Guggenheim Fellow and Visiting Member.
Member.
Aydelotte, Frank, 1880-1956
Director.
Member, Professor of Natural Sciences, and Richard Black Professor of Natural Sciences.
Member.
Member.
Bargmann, V. (Valentine), 1908-1989
Member.
Visiting Scholar.
Member.
Visiting Member.
Member.
Member; Visiting Professor; and Member, Board of Trustees.
Member.
Member.
Member and Director, Theoretical Meteorology Project.
Cooper, Leon N. (Leon Neil), 1930-
National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellow.
Member.
Professor of Theoretical Physics.
Member and Visiting Scientist.
DeWitt, Bryce S. (Bryce Seligman), 1923-2004
Member.
Dijkgraaf, R.
Director.
Commonwealth Fellow; Professor of Physics; and Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Professor.
Member.
Feigenbaum, Mitchell, 1944-2019
Visiting Member.
Member, School of Mathematics.
Flexner, Abraham, 1866-1959
Director.
Member.
Member.
Member.
Goddard, Peter, Ph.D.
Director.
Director.
Griffiths, Phillip, 1938-
Director.
Member.
Visiting Member.
Visiting Professor.
Kaysen, Carl
Director.
Member.
Member.
Kraichnan, Robert H., 1928-2008
Member and Assistant to Albert Einstein.
Member; Professor; and Member, Board of Trustees.
Visiting Professor.
Lin, C. C. (Chia-Chʻiao), 1916-2013
Member.
Low, Francis E. (Francis Eugene), 1921-2007
Member.
Carl P. Feinberg Professor.
Member.
Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992
Member.
Member.
Professor of Mathematics and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics.
Member.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Director.
Visiting Professor.
Research Fellow.
Member.
Professor of Astrophysical Science.
Research Assistant.
Member; Long-Term Member; Visiting Member; and Professor.
Visiting Member and Professor of Mathematical Physics.
Member.
Member.
Monell Fellow and Keck Distinguished Visiting Professor.
Long-Term Member and Member, Board of Trustees.
Visiting Physicist.
Member.
Visiting Professor of Mathematical Physics; Permanent Member and Research Professor; and Director, Electronic Computer Project.
Member.
Professor, School of Mathematics.
Visiting Fellow and Professor and J. Robert Oppenheimer Professor, School of Natural Sciences.
Professor, School of Natural Sciences and Charles Simonyi Professor.
Woolf, Harry
Director.
Member.
Member and Professor.
Associates & Members
Adler, Felix I. (1951-) and Adler, Donatella (-).
Bolin, Bert, 1925-2007
Dicke, Robert H. (Robert Henry)
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984
Drell, Sidney D. (Sidney David), 1926-
Member, Board of Trustees.
Eberlein, W. F. (William Frederick),
Member; Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Fellow; and Jewett Fellow.
Goldstine, Herman H. (Herman Heine), 1913-2004
Herring, William Conyers, 1914-
Hoffmann, Banesh, 1906-
Member and Albert Einstein Fellow.
Kemeny, John G.
National Research Council (NRC) Fellow.
Leith, Cecil E., 1923-
Jewett Fellow.
Pais, Abraham, 1918-2000
Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988
Reiche, Hans
Salpeter, Edwin E.
Smagorinsky, J. (Joseph)
Strauss, Lewis L.
Stromgren, Bengt, 1908-1987
Thompson, Philip Duncan
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Fellow.
Institutions
Collaborators
Princeton University. Department of Physics
Geographically close to each other and collaborated on projects throughout their history.
Associates
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Electronic Computer Project (ECP) records, 1940-1967.
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
Institute for Advanced Study
1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Institute for Advanced Study Computer Project records, 1950-1957.
Archives Center
Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of American History
MRC 601, 12th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20560, USA
Institute for Advanced Study Office of the Director records, 1920-2005.
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
Institute for Advanced Study
1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
Institute for Advanced Study
1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Institute for Advanced Study School of Mathematics records, 1935-1993.
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
Institute for Advanced Study
1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Institute for Advanced Study School of Natural Sciences records, 1930-1986.
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
Institute for Advanced Study
1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Listings of permanent members, members, assistants, and staff of the Institute for Advanced Study, 1954-1972.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Subject
A conversation with J. Robert Oppenheimer [motion picture] / CBS ; edited and produced by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly ; 1954 Dec 16.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists records, 1946-1951.
The Joseph Regenstein Library. Department of Special Collections
University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Eugene Feenberg correspondence, 1927-1958.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Eulogy for Helen Dukas, Einstein's secretary, delivered by Abraham Pais, 1982.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Felix T. and Donatella Adler papers, 1939-1986.
University Archives.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
J. Robert Oppenheimer papers, 1921-1980 (bulk 1947-1967).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
John Bahcall papers, 1955-2005 (bulk 1971-2005).
Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
Institute for Advanced Study
1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
John Von Neumann collection, 1913-1925, 1942-1956, 1989-1992.
Center for American History. University Archives
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78713, USA
John Von Neumann papers, 1912-1996 (bulk 1935-1957).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
Keith Brueckner manuscript biography, 1986.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Lectures on quantum electrodynamics: student notes on Dirac's course given at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1934-1935.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Lewis L. Strauss papers, 1914-1974.
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
West Branch, IA 52358, USA
My recollection of Einstein, 1990.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Banesh Hoffmann, 1984 October 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren, 1976 May 6 and 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Bert Bolin, 2001 May 3.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Cecil E. "Chuck" Leith, 1997 July 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edwin Ernest Salpeter, 1978 March 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Herman Heine Goldstine, 1977 March 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1963 November 18 and 20.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with John G. Kemeny, 1984 June 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Joseph Smagorinsky, 1986 May 16, 17 and 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Joseph Smagorinsky, 1989 March 1.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Jule G. Charney, 1980 August 25, 26, 27 and 28.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Melba Newell Phillips, 1977 December 5.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Murray Gell-Mann, 1997 July 17 and 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Norman M. Kroll, 1987 March 29.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Philip Duncan Thompson, 1986 December 5.
Charles Babbage Institute. Center for the History of Computing
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Oral history interview with Stanley Deser, 2011 March 12.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with V. Bargmann, 1984 April 12.
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
Princeton University
65 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Oral history interview with Valentine L. Telegdi, 2008 March 4 and 9.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Yoichiro Nambu, 2004 July 16.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interviews. Ground-based astronomy: Astrophysical Research Consortium, 1996-1997.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Robert H. Dicke response to Laser History Project Survey, 1983.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Stanislaw Ulam papers, 1916-1984.
Library.
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Valentine Bargmann papers, 1908-1988.
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Princeton University
1 Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Who got Einstein's office? : eccentricity and genius at the Institute for Advanced Study / Ed Regis.
William F. Eberlein papers, 1936-1986.
Center for American History. University Archives
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78713, USA
Published Resources
Author
A community of scholars : the Institute for Advanced Study faculty and members, 1930-1980.
Group theory and spectroscopy / by Giulio Racah.