Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. In addition to his work in linguistics, since the 1960s, Chomsky has been an influential voice on the American Left as a consistent critic of the foreign policy of the United States, contemporary capitalism, and corporatocracy.

Danish physicist (1885–1962)

US-British poet (1888–1965)

British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)

American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)

physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

Iranian mathematician (1977–2017)

Greek poet and diplomat (1900-1971)

German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)

German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi (1879–1960)

Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)

American physicist (1929–2019)

Indian-American astrophysicist

theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient

American physicist (1898–1988)

Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)

American economist, professor, and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)

Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)

Danish physicist (1922–2009)

American particle physicist and string theorist

German nuclear physicist (1907–1973)

Dutch theoretical physicist

Japanese physicist (1906-1979)

American physicist (1930–2024)

American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate

American theoretical physicist (1925–2018)

American theoretical physicist (1921-2015)

American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)

Nobel prize winning US physicist

English mathematician (1953–)

American biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926–2023)

German philosopher and logician (1891–1970)

German-American physicist, Nobel laureate (1921-2020)

American biologist, biochemist, physiologist and Nobel laureate (1906–1997)

British economist, Nobel Memorial Prize winner (1913-1991)

French mathematician (1923–2002)

Finnish mathematician (1907-1996)

British-American historian (1916–2018)

French mathematician

French mathematician (1904–2008)

German mathematician

American writer (1928–2020)

Polish mathematician (1896–1980)

French mathematician

French mathematician and politician

Vietnamese math professor

Italian mathematician and physicist (1873–1941)

Indo-Canadian mathematician

British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)

American mathematician

American mathematician

English mathematician (1939-2018)

British/American mathematician

American mathematician (1946–2012)

American mathematician (1897–1965)

American mathematician

Danish mathematician and footballer (1887–1951)

Russian mathematician

Chinese-American mathematician and poet (1911-2004)