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Also known as IAS, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study

postgraduate center in Princeton, New Jersey, US

Key facts

Motto
Truth and Beauty
Type
Private
Established
1930 ; 96 years ago ( 1930 )
Founder
Abraham Flexner
Endowment
$784.7 million (2020)
Director
David Nirenberg
Academic staff
25 (current faculty only)
Students
None
Location
Princeton, New Jersey , US
Campus
Suburban
Website
ias .edu

via Wikipedia infobox

Research organization · ROR

Type
Facility, Funder
Founded
1930
Location
Princeton, United States
Also known as
IAS
Status
Active

GRID grid.78989.37 · ISNI 0000 0001 2160 7918

Wikidata facts

Instance of
archives
Located in
Princeton
Headquarters
Princeton
Official website
ias.edu
Image
Fuld Hall, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.jpg
Motto
Truth and Beauty
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Commons category
Institute for Advanced Study
inception
1930-00-00
director / manager
Robbert Dijkgraaf
native label
Institute for Advanced Study
category for employees of the organization
Category:Institute for Advanced Study faculty
social media followers
143000
street address
1 Einstein Dr, Princeton, NJ 08540
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Encyclopedic overview

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholars, including Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Emmy Noether, Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann, Michael Walzer, Clifford Geertz, Freeman Dyson and Kurt Gödel, many of whom had emigrated from Europe to the United States.

It was founded in 1930 by American educator Abraham Flexner, together with philanthropists Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. Despite collaborative ties and neighboring geographic location, the institute, being independent, has "no formal links" with Princeton University. The institute does not charge tuition or fees.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Institute for Advanced Study” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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