Author: Ed Regis
Genre: Non-Fiction
Date Finished: Nov 29, 2009
This is a great book about the history of the Institute for Advanced Study located in Princeton. It was started in the 1930's as a place where outstanding physical scientists could go and work, unhindered by teaching requirements, publishing schedules or other extraneous duties. Their job was to think. Einstein went there when he came to America, Kurt Godel worked there, Oppenheimer and many others. The book covers the Institute from conception to the 1980s I think, talking about the people who there and their work.
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