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The Institute exists to encourage and support fundamental scholarship—the original, often speculative thinking that produces advances in knowledge. It provides for the mentoring of younger scholars by Faculty, and it offers all who work there the freedom to undertake research that will make significant contributions in any of the broad range of fields in the sciences and humanities studied at the Institute. </p> <p>The Institute is a private, independent academic institution located in<em> </em>Princeton, New Jersey. It was founded in 1930 by philanthropists Louis Bamberger and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, and established through the vision of founding Director Abraham Flexner. Past Faculty have included <a href="/web/20160303230013/https://www.ias.edu/people/einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, who remained at the Institute until his death in 1955, and distinguished scientists and scholars such as <a href="/web/20160303230013/https://www.ias.edu/people/godel">Kurt Gödel</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230013/http://www.ias.edu/people/goldman">Hetty Goldman</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230013/http://www.ias.edu/people/kennan">George Kennan</a>, <a href="/web/20160303230013/https://www.ias.edu/people/oppenheimer">J. Robert Oppenheimer</a>, <a href="/web/20160303230013/https://www.ias.edu/people/panofsky">Erwin Panofsky</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230013/http://www.ias.edu/news/press-releases/thompson">Homer A. Thompson</a>, <a href="/web/20160303230013/https://www.ias.edu/people/vonneumann">John von Neumann</a>, and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230013/http://www.ias.edu/people/weyl">Hermann Weyl</a>. </p> <div> </div> <p><strong>PAST DIRECTORS</strong><br/><em>(in order of service)</em></p> <p><a href="/web/20160303230013/https://www.ias.edu/people/flexner">ABRAHAM FLEXNER</a>, 1930–39<br/> FRANK AYDELOTTE, 1939–47<br/><a href="/web/20160303230013/https://www.ias.edu/people/oppenheimer">J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER</a>, 1947–66<br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230013/http://www.ias.edu/news/press-releases/2010/02/10/carl-kaysen-1920-2010">CARL KAYSEN</a>, 1966–76<br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230013/http://www.ias.edu/news/press-releases/woolf">HARRY WOOLF</a>, 1976–87<br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230013/https://www.ias.edu/marvin-goldberger" target="_blank">MARVIN L. GOLDBERGER</a>, 1987–91<br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230013/https://www.ias.edu/people/faculty-and-emeriti/griffiths">PHILLIP A. GRIFFITHS</a>, 1991–2003<br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230013/https://www.ias.edu/people/faculty-and-emeriti/goddard">PETER GODDARD</a>, 2004–12</p> <p><strong>PAST FACULTY</strong></p> <p>JAMES W. ALEXANDER<br/> ANDREW E. Z. ALFÖLDI<br/> MICHAEL F. ATIYAH<br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230013/http://www.ias.edu/news/press-releases/bahcall_obit2">JOHN N. BAHCALL</a><br/> ARNE K. A. BEURLING<br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230013/http://www.ias.edu/news/press-releases/borel">ARMAND BOREL</a><br/> LUIS A. CAFFARELLI<br/> HAROLD F. CHERNISS<br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230013/http://www.ias.edu/news/press-releases/clagett_10-24-05">MARSHALL CLAGETT</a><br/> JOSÉ CUTILEIRO<br/> ROGER F. DASHEN<br/> EDWARD M. EARLE<br/><a href="/web/20160303230013/https://www.ias.edu/people/einstein">ALBERT EINSTEIN</a><br/> JOHN H. ELLIOTT<br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230013/http://ias.edu/people/geertz">CLIFFORD GEERTZ</a><br/> FELIX GILBERT<br/> JAMES F. GILLIAM<br/><a href="/web/20160303230013/https://www.ias.edu/people/godel" title="Kurt Godel">KURT GÖDEL</a><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230013/http://www.ias.edu/people/goldman">HETTY GOLDMAN</a><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230013/http://www.ias.edu/news/press-releases/2011/01/10/grabar">OLEG GRABAR</a><br/> HARISH-CHANDRA<br/> ERNST HERZFELD<br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230013/http://www.ias.edu/news/press-releases/2012/12/12/hirschman">ALBERT O. HIRSCHMAN</a><br/> LARS V. HÖRMANDER<br/> ERNST H. KANTOROWICZ<br/><a href="/web/20160303230013/https://www.ias.edu/people/kennan">GEORGE F. KENNAN</a><br/> TSUNG-DAO LEE<br/> ELIAS A. LOWE<br/> AVISHAI MARGALIT<br/> ERIC S. 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