ORGANIZATION

Founded 1930 in Princeton, NJ.

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

Location:
Princeton, NJ

Founding Date:
20-May-1930

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Michael Atiyah	Mathematician	22-Apr-1929		Atiyah-Singer index theorem
Caroline Bynum	Historian	1941		Medieval historian
Jule Charney	Scientist	1-Jan-1917	16-Jun-1981	Quasi-gesotrophic theory
Noam Chomsky	Linguist	7-Dec-1928		Linguist, dissident intellectual
Haskell Curry	Mathematician	12-Sep-1900	1-Sep-1982	Combinatory Logic
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.	Government	28-Oct-1951		CEO of TIAA-CREF
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
Kiyoshi Ito	Mathematician	7-Sep-1915	10-Nov-2008	Ito Calculus
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
Paul Kennedy	Historian	Jun-1945		The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
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
Yoichiro Nambu	Physicist	18-Jan-1921		Spontaneous broken symmetry
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
Bengt Strömgren	Astronomer	21-Jan-1908	4-Jul-1987	Hydrogen stars
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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