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The Institute tor Advanced Stud) was founded in 1930 with a major gift from New |ersey businessman and philanthropist Louis Bamberger and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld, who wished to use their fortunes to make a significant and lasting contribution to society. They sought the advice of educator Abraham Flexner, who developed the concept ot the Institute as a community of scholars whose primary purpose would he the pursuit ot advanced learning and scholarly exploration. The Institute tor Advanced Study has sustained its founding principle for seventy years. This commitment his yielded an unsurpassed record ot definitive scholarship. The Institute tills a unique role in postgraduate education and scientific and scholarly research. As "the university to universities," in the words of Trustee Vartan Gregorian, the Institute serves all colleges and universities by providing a place where scholars can hone their skills and do their hest work, thereby adding substan- tially to their ability to contribute as both teachers and scholars to the academic institutions where they hase their careers. For young scholars just entering the academic world, an opportunity to work at the Institute can set the direction for life- long research interests and thereby determine professional careers. The Institute provides more mature scholars with the opportunity to take a new direction in their research or to complete a major piece of work away from the many obligations and distractions ot working life at a contemporary university. In our era, a time when pure research and scholarly activities are undervalued, these opportunities are ex( eedingly rare. The Institute's foremost objective is the advancement ot knowledge and the deepen- ing ot understanding across a broad range of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Oik o! the Institute's unique strengths is its small and distinguished perma- nent Faculty, well-established scholars whose broad interests and extensive ties to the larger academic world are reflected in their own work and also in the guidance and direction they provide to the Institute's visiting Members. The Faculty defines the major themes and question- which become the focus of each School's seminar- and other activities, and the Faculty selects and works closely with visiting Members. Small in number and organized in tour Schools (Historical Studies, Mathematics. Natural Niciucs, and Social Science), the Faculty and Members can interact with other without the departmental and disciplinary barriers found in universities. ii I he Institute awards fellowship- to L 80 visiting Members In 'in universities and research institutions throughout the world. The Institute's nearly 5,000 former Members hold positions oi intellectual and scu'ii titic leadership in the United States and abroad. More- than a dozen Nobel laureates have been Institute b.ic ull\ or Mem hers, and many more are winners of the W'olt or Mae Arthur prizes. Twenty nine out ot forty two Fields Medalists, the Nobel equivalent tor mathematicians, have been Institute- b.u uli\ and Members. 1 1,, Institute does not uuiu- income from tuition ot tees. Resources tor operations com< from endowment income, gram- from private foundations and government agencies, and gilts from corporations and individuals.
seemed to me that the time was ripe for the creation in America of Itan institute in the field of general scholarship and science . . . not a graduate school, training men in the known and to some extent in methods of research, hut an institute where everyone — faculty and members — took tor granted what was known and published, and in their individual ways endeavored to advance the frontiers of knowledge." — Abraham Flexner, Founding Director (1 930-39) of the Institute, Memorandum to the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study , September 26, 1931
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