Institute for Advanced Study history

In 1932 Veblen resigned from Princeton and became the first professor in the new Institute for Advanced Study.

By the start of the academic year 1933–34, the Institute had a Faculty of five leading mathematicians and theoretical physicists: James Alexander, Einstein, von Neumann, Veblen, and Weyl, as well as over twenty visitors.

In 1935 quantum physics pioneer Wolfgang Pauli became a faculty member.

In Wolfgang Pauli: Exile and return…professorship in 1940 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., United States, where he worked mainly on meson theory.

Einstein remained at the Institute until his death in 1955, leaving a 20-year legacy in the history of the Institute’s growth and reputation.

Beginning in 1964, he made important contributions to the explanation of the violations of time-reversal invariance, which…

A separate School of Natural Sciences was not established until 1966.

The IASH, formally established in 1970, is the oldest Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Britain’s first, and Scotland’s only IAS. However, in its nearly fifty-year history, no effort has been made to tell IASH’s story.

The School of Social Science was founded in 1973.

From 1991, Phillip A. Griffiths served as director.

Lee In Tsung-Dao Lee…professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study, and three years later he returned to Columbia to assume the first Enrico Fermi professorship in physics; he retired as professor emeritus in 2012.