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Institute for Advanced Study

Also Known As IAS
Research Institutes and Laboratories

The Institute for Advanced Study is a center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1930 and long home to scholars including Albert Einstein and Kurt Godel.

Facts
Founded YearSourced to the subject's own account
1930 1
FounderSourced to the subject's own account
Abraham Flexner, funded by Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld 1
SeatSourced to the subject's own account
Princeton, New Jersey, United States 1
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Albert Einstein, Scientists
Source Institute for Advanced Study (Wikipedia)
John von Neumann, Scientists
Source Institute for Advanced Study (Wikipedia)

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Aage Bohr, Scientists
Source Aage Bohr (Wikipedia)
Akshay Venkatesh, Scientists
Source Wikipedia: Akshay Venkatesh
Albert Einstein, Scientists

Faculty member from 1933 until his death in 1955.

Atle Selberg, Scientists
Source Atle Selberg (Wikipedia)
Avi Wigderson, Scientists
Source Avi Wigderson - Wikipedia
Bengt Stromgren, Scientists
Source Bengt Stromgren, Wikipedia
Chen-Ning Yang, Scientists
Source Yang Chen-Ning (Wikipedia)
Edward Witten, Scientists
Source Edward Witten (Wikipedia)
Elon Lindenstrauss, Scientists
Source Elon Lindenstrauss (Wikipedia)
Enrico Bombieri, Scientists
Source Enrico Bombieri (Wikipedia)
Freeman Dyson, Scientists
Source Freeman Dyson (Wikipedia)
Hermann Weyl, Scientists
Source Hermann Weyl (Wikipedia)
Hong Wang, Scientists
Source Hong Wang (Wikipedia)
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Scientists
Source J. Robert Oppenheimer (Wikipedia)
Jean Bourgain, Scientists
Source Jean Bourgain (Wikipedia)
Kunihiko Kodaira, Scientists
Source Kunihiko Kodaira (Wikipedia)
Kurt Godel, Scientists
Source Kurt Godel (Wikipedia)
Lars Hörmander, Scientists
Source Lars Hörmander (Wikipedia)
Michael Atiyah, Scientists
Source Michael Atiyah (Wikipedia)
Michael Freedman, Scientists
Source Michael Freedman (Wikipedia)
Murray Gell-Mann, Scientists
Source Murray Gell-Mann (Wikipedia)
Ngô Bao Chau, Scientists
Source Ngô Bảo Châu (Wikipedia)
Peter Goldreich, Scientists
Source Peter Goldreich - Wikipedia
Pierre Deligne, Scientists
Source Pierre Deligne (Wikipedia)
Rudolf Carnap, Scientists
Source Wikipedia
Samarendra Kumar Mitra, Scientists
Source Samarendra Kumar Mitra (Wikipedia)
Sara Seager, Scientists
Source Sara Seager - Wikipedia
Shing-Tung Yau, Scientists
Source Shing-Tung Yau (Wikipedia)
Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Scientists
Source Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (Wikipedia)
Simon Donaldson, Scientists
Source Simon Donaldson (Wikipedia)
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Scientists
Source Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (Wikipedia)
Stanislav Smirnov, Scientists
Source Stanislav Smirnov (Wikipedia)
Stanislaw Ulam, Scientists
Source Stanislaw Ulam (Wikipedia)
Stephen Shing-Toung Yau, Scientists
Source Stephen Shing-Toung Yau (Wikipedia)
Stephen Wolfram, Scientists
Source Stephen Wolfram (Wikipedia)
Tsung-Dao Lee, Scientists
Source Tsung-Dao Lee (Wikipedia)
Vladimir Voevodsky, Scientists
Source Vladimir Voevodsky (Wikipedia)
William Thurston, Scientists
Source William Thurston (Wikipedia)
Wolfgang Pauli, Scientists
Source Wolfgang Pauli (Wikipedia)
Yoichiro Nambu, Scientists
Source Yoichiro Nambu (Wikipedia)
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1. Institute for Advanced Study (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • Lead section
    The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is a center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry, designed and funded by the U.S. Government, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment, located in Princeton, New Jersey.
  • History section
    The institute was founded in 1930 by Abraham Flexner, together with philanthropists Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld.
  • Associated With: John von Neumann, History
    Weyl as a condition of accepting insisted that the institute also appoint the thirty-year-old Austrian-Hungarian polymath John von Neumann.
  • In Group: Independent Research Institutes, Lead
    is a center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry, designed and funded by the U
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Yang Chen-Ning (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Chen-Ning Yang, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Chen-Ning Yang, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Stony Brook University ; Institute for Advanced Study ; CUHK ; Tsinghua University ; University of Chicago ; Chern Institute of Mathematics
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Tsung-Dao Lee (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Tsung-Dao Lee, Infobox, workplaces
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Infobox workplaces: Columbia University Institute for Advanced Study University of California, Berkeley
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Murray Gell-Mann (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Murray Gell-Mann, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Murray Gell-Mann, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Santa Fe Institute University of New Mexico University of Southern California California Institute of Technology University of Chicago University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Institute for Advanced Study Columbia University
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J. Robert Oppenheimer (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: University of California, Berkeley; California Institute of Technology; Los Alamos Laboratory; Institute for Advanced Study
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Freeman Dyson (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Freeman Dyson, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Freeman Dyson, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Royal Air Force Institute for Advanced Study University of Birmingham Cornell University
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Wolfgang Pauli (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Wolfgang Pauli, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Wolfgang Pauli, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: University of Hamburg ETH Zurich Institute for Advanced Study
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Yoichiro Nambu (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Yoichiro Nambu, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Yoichiro Nambu, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: IJA Research Institute of Technology (IJA 4th Research Institute of Aeronautical Technology) (1943-45); University of Tokyo (1945-49); Osaka City University (1949-52); Institute for Advanced Study (1952-54); University of Chicago (1954-2015
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Shing-Tung Yau (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Shing-Tung Yau, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Shing-Tung Yau, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Tsinghua University; Harvard University ; University of California, San Diego ; Stanford University ; Stony Brook University ; Institute for Advanced Study
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Wikipedia
WikipediaHas Member: Rudolf Carnap, Infobox, institutions
Quote, Has Member: Rudolf Carnap, Infobox, institutions
Infobox institutions: University of Vienna; German University in Prague; University of Chicago; Harvard University; Institute for Advanced Study; UCLA
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Hermann Weyl (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Hermann Weyl, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Hermann Weyl, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Institute for Advanced Study; University of Göttingen; ETH Zurich
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Avi Wigderson - Wikipedia
Has Member: Avi Wigderson, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Avi Wigderson, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Institute for Advanced Study
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Sara Seager - Wikipedia
Has Member: Sara Seager, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Sara Seager, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007, ); Carnegie Institution of Washington (2002-2006) ; Institute for Advanced Study (1999-2002)
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Peter Goldreich - Wikipedia
Has Member: Peter Goldreich, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Peter Goldreich, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Caltech; Institute for Advanced Study
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Samarendra Kumar Mitra (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Samarendra Kumar Mitra, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Samarendra Kumar Mitra, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Indian Statistical Institute Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR, India) Harvard University Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, United States Mathematical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, U.K. Palit Labora
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Stephen Wolfram (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Stephen Wolfram, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Stephen Wolfram, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: class=nowrap Wolfram Research Thinking Machines Corporation California Institute of Technology Institute for Advanced Study University of Illinois Urbana-brChampaign endplainlist
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Atle Selberg (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Atle Selberg, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Atle Selberg, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Syracuse University Institute for Advanced Study
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Edward Witten (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Edward Witten, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Edward Witten, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University Oxford University California Institute of Technology Princeton University
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Enrico Bombieri (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Enrico Bombieri, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Enrico Bombieri, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Institute for Advanced Study
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Kunihiko Kodaira (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Kunihiko Kodaira, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Kunihiko Kodaira, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: University of Tokyo; Institute for Advanced Study; Johns Hopkins University; Princeton University; Stanford University
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Michael Atiyah (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Michael Atiyah, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Michael Atiyah, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: University of Oxford Institute for Advanced Study University of Leicester University of Edinburgh University of Cambridge
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Pierre Deligne (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Pierre Deligne, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Pierre Deligne, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Institute for Advanced Study; Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
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Simon Donaldson (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Simon Donaldson, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Simon Donaldson, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Imperial College London; Stony Brook University; Institute for Advanced Study; Stanford University; University of Oxford
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William Thurston (Wikipedia)
Has Member: William Thurston, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: William Thurston, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Cornell University; University of California, Davis; Mathematical Sciences Research Institute; University of California, Berkeley; Princeton University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Institute for Advanced Study
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Wikipedia: Akshay Venkatesh
WikipediaHas Member: Akshay Venkatesh, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Akshay Venkatesh, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Institute for Advanced Study (2005-2006, 2018-present); Stanford University (2008-2018); Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (2006-2008)
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Jean Bourgain (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jean Bourgain, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Jean Bourgain, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Institute for Advanced Study; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of California, Berkeley
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Vladimir Voevodsky (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Vladimir Voevodsky, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Vladimir Voevodsky, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Institute for Advanced Study
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Elon Lindenstrauss (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Elon Lindenstrauss, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Elon Lindenstrauss, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Princeton University; Institute for Advanced Study
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Stanislav Smirnov (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Stanislav Smirnov, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Stanislav Smirnov, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: University of Geneva; Royal Institute of Technology; Saint Petersburg State University; Yale University; Max Planck Institute for Mathematics; IAS Princeton; Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
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Hong Wang (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Hong Wang, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Hong Wang, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Institute for Advanced Study; University of California, Los Angeles; Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science; New York University; Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
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Michael Freedman (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Michael Freedman, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Michael Freedman, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Microsoft Station Q; UC Santa Barbara; UC San Diego; Institute for Advanced Study; UC Berkeley
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Aage Bohr (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Aage Bohr, Infobox, workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Aage Bohr, Infobox, workplaces
Infobox workplaces: Manhattan Project Institute for Advanced Study Columbia University University of Copenhagen
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Stephen Shing-Toung Yau (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Stephen Shing-Toung Yau, Categories
Quote, Has Member: Stephen Shing-Toung Yau, Categories
Category:Institute for Advanced Study faculty
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Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (Wikipedia)
  • Has Member: Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Infobox: workplaces
    Leipzig University Institute for Advanced Study Tokyo University of Education RIKEN University of Tokyo
  • Has Member: Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Infobox: workplaces
    Leipzig University Institute for Advanced Study Tokyo University of Education RIKEN University of Tokyo
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Kurt Godel (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Kurt Godel, Infobox: workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Kurt Godel, Infobox: workplaces
Institute for Advanced Study
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Stanislaw Ulam (Wikipedia)
WikipediaHas Member: Stanislaw Ulam, Infobox: workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Stanislaw Ulam, Infobox: workplaces
Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University University of Wisconsin Los Alamos National Laboratory University of Colorado University of Florida
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Bengt Stromgren, Wikipedia
Has Member: Bengt Stromgren, Infobox: workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Bengt Stromgren, Infobox: workplaces
University of Chicago, Yerkes and McDonald Observatory, Institute for Advanced Study
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Ngô Bảo Châu (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Ngô Bao Chau, Infobox: workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Ngô Bao Chau, Infobox: workplaces
Université Sorbonne Paris Nord Paris-Sud University Institute for Advanced Study University of Chicago University of Hong Kong
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Lars Hörmander (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Lars Hörmander, Infobox: workplaces
Quote, Has Member: Lars Hörmander, Infobox: workplaces
Stockholm University Stanford University Institute for Advanced Study Lund University
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