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Annual Report for the Fiscal Year July 1, 1980 The Institute for Advanced Study .nnual Report 1980 This Annual Report has been made possible by a generous grant from the Union Carbide Corporation. ! The Institute for Advanced Study Annual Report for the Fiscal Year July 1, 1980-June 30, 1981 The Institute for Advanced Study Olden Lane Princeton, New Jersey 08540 U.S.A. Printed by Princeton University Press Designed by Bruce Campbell x4S36 /98I It is fundamental to our purpose, and our Extract from the letter addressed by the express desire, that in the appointments to Founders to the Institute's Trustees, the staff and faculty, as well as in the dated June 6, 1930, Newark, New Jersey. admission of workers and students, no account shall be taken, directly or indirectly, of race, religion or sex. We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all, the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed or sex. /r2- S39 Table of Contents Trustees and Officers Founders Caroline Bamberger Fuld Louis Bamberger Board of Trustees Daniel Bell Howard C. Kauffmann Professor of Sociology President Harvard University Exxon Corporation Charles L. Brown John R. Opel Chairman the Board of and Chief President and Chief Executive Officer Executive Officer IBM Corporation American Telephone and Telegraph Company Howard C. Petersen Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Fletcher L. Byrom Chairman of the Board Martin E. Segal Koppers Company, Inc. Partner, Wertheim & Co.; Chairman, Martin E. Segal Company Gladys Krieble Delmas New York, New York Zeph Stewart Professor of Greek and Latin J. Richardson Dilworth Harvard University Princeton, Neiv Jersey Donald B. Straus Joseph L. Doob President Professor Emeritus Mathematics of Research Institute of the American University of Illinois Arbitration Association Sidney D. Drell Frank E. Taplin Professor of Physics President Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Metropolitan Opera Association Michael V. Forrestal Elizabeth A. Whitehead Laivyer Greenwich, Connecticut New York, New York James D. Wolfensohn Ralph E. Hansmann General Partner New York, New York Salomon Brothers James R. Houghton Harry Woolf Vice-Chairman and Director Director Corning Glass Works The Institute for Advanced Study Trustees Emeriti The Institute for Advanced Study: Background and Purpose The Institute takes the following premises on the Institute's intellectual purposes in every way nature of learning as fundamental: most important possible. work is the product of the disciplined and creative Although the Institute is small when meas- individual mind; accordingly, the individual scholar ured in terms of the size of its immediate ac- must be responsible for how he uses the precious ademic community or of its operating budget, resources of his own time and energy; the com- its intellectual weight is great and its influence munity of peers in his area of intellectual work is on science and scholarship extraordinary. From the ultimate judge of the results. (From Pro- its earliest years, it has been internationally cedures FOR Academic Governance of the recognized as one of the world's leading cen- Institute.) ters of research. Indeed, its successful ex- ample has created numerous imitators both in the United States and abroad. The Institute for Advanced Study, an inde- From the beginning the Institute has been pendent, private institution devoted to the an international organization, although encouragement, support and patronage of American in location and organizational form. learning, was founded in 1930 as a commu- It has operated throughout its existence on nity of scholars where intellectual inquiry could the premise that science and learning tran- be carried out in the most favorable circum- scend national boundaries and that scholars stances. Focused on mathematics and classi- and scientists are members of one common- cal studies at the outset, the Institute today wealth of the mind. Of the present Faculty, consists of the School of Historical Studies, many have begun their scientific and schol- the School of Mathematics, the School of Nat- arly careers outside the United States. One- ural Sciences and the School of Social Science. third of the visiting members come from Each School has a small permanent Faculty, abroad, mostly from the great centers of and some 160 fellowships are awarded an- learning of western Europe and, to a lesser nually to visiting members from other re- extent, from other regions of the world. search institutions and universities through- With its devotion to the continuing exam- out the world. ination of new and centrally important ques- The objectives of the Institute were de- tions as they arise at the frontiers of knowl- scribed as follows in the Founders' original edge, the Institute partakes of the character letter to the first Trustees: "The primary pur- of both a university and a research institute, pose is the pursuit of advanced learning and while differing in significant ways from both. exploration in the fields of pure science and It is unlike a university, for instance, in its high scholarship to the utmost degree that the small size—its academic membership an- facilities of the institution and the ability of nually numbers somewhat under 200—and in the faculty and students will permit." During the fact that it has no formal curriculum, no the past half-century, these goals have been scheduled courses of instruction, no commit- implemented by a Faculty of exceptional merit; ment that all branches of learning be repre- by an annually renewed group of carefully sented in its Faculty and members. It is unlike selected visiting members; and by the devel- the usual research institute in that it supports opment of facilities and a mode of operation many separate fields of study, maintains no designed specifically to support and assist the laboratories and determines its programs in 12 Background and Purpose terms of individual intellectual imperatives The Institute is nonetheless an intellectual rather than the collective aims of research teams community and not a mere collection of schol- or the particular interests of potential donors. ars. Community is possible because Faculty For close to five decades the Institute for and members have some substantial knowl- Advanced Study has made a substantial con- edge outside their own fields of specializa- tribution to the world of higher learning by tion. The fact that the visiting members live providing support—intellectual and mate- together in Institute housing, eat in the same rial—to visiting members whose develop- dining hall, share the same common room ment and growth constitute one of its prin- and libraries, and carry out their work in an cipal purposes. More than half of these visiting institutional setting where human scale has members are young men and women 35 years been carefully maintained is conducive to of age or less whose work at the Institute in- common interest, mutual understanding and volves the Faculty in a substantial amount of friendship. postdoctoral training. Though none of the vis- The Faculty and members of the Institute iting members is a student in the narrow sense are also a part of the larger community of of being a degree candidate, educational Princeton, with its University and its many growth lies ahead. institutions of research and learning. Many The Institute devotes special attention to Institute seminars are open to interested young people of accomplishment and prom- members of the University's faculty and grad- ise, and offers them membership at a stage uate school, and University seminars and in their careers when independent work is of conferences are frequently attended by Insti- the highest importance to their intellectual de- tute Faculty and members. Without the Uni- velopment. These younger members then re- versity, Princeton itself would be both phys- turn to or join the faculties of universities all ically and intellectually inadequate as the site over the world and share what they have of the Institute; and the Institute has brought learned as a result of their stay at the Institute. a degree of international excellence to the This might be termed the invisible work of general academic community of Princeton, the Institute; its visible work is contained in contribuhng to the development of what has the publicahons of the Faculty and visiting become one of the world's great educational members. Both serve to reinforce in highly centers. significant ways the quality of scholarship and The Institute today occupies a square mile research throughout the world. of land in Princeton, New Jersey. Most of this The varied work of the Institute is, of course, is farm and woodland. Its buildings house specialized; no advanced study or deep schol- libraries, offices for Faculty and members, arship can be otherwise. Formal attempts to seminar and lecture rooms, and common organize scholarly work at the Institute are rooms. Although the Institute has no admin- minimized, although lectures and seminars istrative or organic connection with Princeton are a regular feature of its internal life. The University, there has always been close col- choice and conduct of research and study are laboration between the two institutions on matters which are decided entirely by each matters of common interest. individual member of the Institute. Report of the Chairman During the year under review, the Institute In the months before his death, the Harold lost three of its Trustees Emeriti, each of whom F. Linder Professorship was established by in different ways made major contributions his family and friends in the Institute's School to the building of the institution to which all of Social Science. At the meeting of the In- were devoted. stitute's Board on October 23, 1981, the Trus- Amory Houghton, Sr., chairman emeritus tees passed the following resolution: of the Corning Glass Works, former United On the occasion of the formal establishment of the States ambassador to France, and Institute Harold F.
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