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Institute for Advanced Study

ORGANIZATION

Founded 1930 in Princeton, NJ.

Official Website:
http://www.ias.edu/

Location:
Princeton, NJ

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Caroline Bynum
Historian
1941   Medieval historian
Noam Chomsky
Linguist
7-Dec-1928   Linguist, dissident intellectual
Abraham Flexner
Educator
13-Nov-1866 21-Sep-1959 The American College
Vartan Gregorian
Educator
8-Apr-1934   President of Carnegie Corporation
David J. Gross
Physicist
19-Feb-1941   Deep structure of matter
Shirley Hufstedler
Judge
24-Aug-1925   US Secretary of Education, 1979-81
Robert Jastrow
Astronomer
7-Sep-1925 8-Feb-2008 Red Giants and White Dwarfs
Helene L. Kaplan
Attorney
19-Jun-1933   Of Counsel, Skadden Arps
Marie-Josée Kravis
Economist
11-Sep-1949   President of MoMA
Bernard Lewis
Scholar
31-May-1916   Middle East scholar
William H. Luers
Diplomat
15-May-1929   US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1983-86
Jack Matlock
Diplomat
1-Oct-1929   US Ambassador to the USSR, 1987-91
Robert L. Mills
Physicist
15-Apr-1927 27-Oct-1999 Subatomic particles
Nathan Myhrvold
Business
3-Aug-1959   CTO of Microsoft, 1996-2000
James J. Schiro
Business
2-Jan-1946   CEO of Zurich Financial Services
Ronaldo H. Schmitz
Business
30-Oct-1938   CFO of BASF, 1984-90
William Schreyer
Business
c. 1927   CEO of Merrill Lynch, 1984-92
Nathan Seiberg
Physicist
22-Sep-1956   String theorist at Princeton
Claude Shannon
Scientist
30-Apr-1916 24-Feb-2001 Pioneer in information theory
James Simons
Mathematician
c. 1938   Renaissance Technologies hedge fund
Lee Smolin
Physicist
1955   The Trouble with Physics
Fritz Stern
Historian
2-Feb-1926   German historian
Walter W. Stewart
Economist
1885 Mar-1958 Council of Economic Advisers, 1953-55
John von Neumann
Scientist
28-Dec-1903 8-Feb-1957 Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory
Marina v.N. Whitman
Economist
6-Mar-1935   Council of Economic Advisers, 1972-73
Andrew Wiles
Mathematician
11-Apr-1953   Proved Fermat's Last Theorem
Edward Witten
Physicist
26-Aug-1951   String theorist at Princeton
James Wolfensohn
Business
1-Dec-1933   World Bank president, 1995-2005
Stephen Wolfram
Mathematician
29-Aug-1959   Creator of Mathematica
Chen Ning Yang
Physicist
1-Oct-1922   Particle physicist
Mort Zuckerman
Business
4-Jun-1937   Owner, New York Daily News


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