Directors of the Institute for Advanced Study

J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons.

American mathematician (1938-)

American educator

Dutch politician, mathematical physicist and string theorist

American theoretical physicist (1922–2014)

British mathematical physicist

American historian (1923–2003)

American economist (1920–2010)

American scholar (1880–1956)