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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, 20 Nassau St., has its administrative headquarters in a five-story, red brick office building, the tallest in Princeton. Academic work is carried on in Princeton University buildings. The institute was organized in 1930 when Louis Bamberger, Newark merchant, and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld, contributed $5,000,000 to enable scholars to continue independent research beyond the Ph.D. level "under the guidance and stimulus of distinguished men." Actual work in mathematics began in 1933. In 1934 an anonymous gift of $1,000,000 made possible the organization of a school of economics and politics ; a school of humanistic studies was added in 1935. Dr. Abraham Flexner is the institute director (1939) ; the best-known faculty member is Dr. Albert Einstein, naturalized German refugee. Einstein leads a quiet life in a small frame house with his daughter and secretary; he is seen occasionally at the motion picture houses and at McCarter Theater. The great physicist has been known to put aside his papers in order to solve a problem in simpler mathematics for a delegation of prep school boys who had failed to find the answer in an examination.
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