Institute for Advanced Study faculty

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".

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.

Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)

Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)

Turkish economist and publicist (born 1957)

Chinese physicist (1922–2025)

German mathematician (1885–1955)

Chinese-American physicist (1926–2024)

theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)

American theoretical physicist

American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian (1904-2005)

American theoretical physicist

British mathematician

American Nobel laureate in economics

American anthropologist

German art historian (1892–1968)

French mathematician (1906-1998)

Norwegian mathematician (1917–2007)

American mathematician

Italian mathematician (1940-)

American mathematician from Hong Kong

Belgian mathematician

Russian mathematician (1966–2017)

Swedish mathematician (1931–2012)

Canadian mathematician

American philosopher (born 1935)

German mathematician (1896-1981)

Belgian mathematician and Fields Medalist (1954-2018)

Australian number theorist

German-American economist; member of the French Resistance

Israeli mathematician and computer scientist

American mathematician (1880–1960)

Israeli mathematician

Dutch-American physicist and science historian (1918–2000)

Argentine mathematician

Argentine physicist

Harish-Chandra (né Harishchandra) FRS (11 October 1923 – 16 October 1983) was an Indian-American mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups.

American academic and historian

Danish astronomer (1908-1987)

Danish Orientalist and historian (1945–2015)

American mathematician (1892–1977)

Italian physicist (1931–2014)

South African mathematician

American-Canadian physicist

American mathematician (1907–1989)

American mathematician (1938-)

American physicist (1934–2005)

British mathematician

American astronomer

Swiss mathematician (1923-2003)

German historian (1895–1963)

American mathematician (1888–1971)

Israeli American theoretical physicist

German archaeologist (1879–1948)

American nuclear physicist (1927–2003)

Hungarian historian, epigraphist, numismatist, archaeologist (1895-1981)

American physicist, professor

British historian (1930–2022)

Swedish mathematician (1905–1986)

American mathematician (1909–1992)