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Annual Report for the Fiscal Year July 1, 1978 he Institute for Advanced Study nnual Report 1978779 This first comprehensive 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 Julyl, 1978 -June 30, 1979 HISTORICAL STUDIES - SOCIAL SCIENCE LIBRARY THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY 08540 It is fundamental in our purpose, and our Extract from the letter express desire, that in the appointments to the addressed by the Founders to the Institute's Trustees, staff and faculty, as well as in the admission dated June 6, 1930, of workers and students, no account shall be Newark, New Jersey. 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. AS36 ^~^Vll Table of Contents Trustees and Officers 7 The Institute for Advanced Study: Background and Purpose 9 Report of the Chairman 11 Report of the Director 13 Reports of the Schools 21 "^^ PubhcaHons of the Faculty and Professors Emeriti: A Selection 65 Record of Events, 1978-79 69 -i ' Report of the Treasurer 93 Donors 102 A-" Founders Caroline Bamberger Fuld Louis Bamberger Board of Trustees Charles L. Brown John R. Opel Chainimn of the Board and Chief President and Director Executive Officer, American Telephone IBM and Telegraph Company Howard C. Petersen Fletcher L. Byrom Ph iladelph ia. Pen nsylvan ia Chairman of the Board Koppers Company, Inc. Martin E. Segal Partner, Wertheim &Co.; Gladys K. Delmas Chairman, Martin E. Segal Company Neu' York, Neii' York Norton Simon J. Richardson Dilworth Los Angeles, California Princeton, Neii' Jersey Zeph Stewart Joseph L. Doob Professor of Greek and Latin Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Harvard University University of Illinois Donald B. Straus Sidney D. Drell President Professor of Physics Research Institute of the American Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Arbitration Association Michael V. Forrestal Frank E. Taplin Lawyer President New York, New York Metropolitan Opera Association Ralph E. Hansmaim Elizabeth A. Whitehead New York, Nciv York Greenwich, Connecticut James R. Houghton James D. Wolfensohn Vice-Chairman and Director General Partner Coming Glass Works Salomon Brothers Howard C. Kauffmann Harry Woolf President Director Exxon Corporation The Institute for Advanced Study Trustees Emeriti Lloyd K. Garrison Amory Houghton, Sr. Harold K. HochschUd Harold F. Linder Ira A. Schur Corporate Officers Howard C. Petersen Ralph E. Hansmann Chairman Treasurer J. Richardson Dilworth Donald C. Jenkins President and Vice Chairman Assistant Treasurer John Hunt Secretary The Institute for Advanced Study: Background and Purpose The Institute takes the following premises on the velopment of facilities and a mode of opera- nature of learning as fundamental: most important tion designed specifically to support and as- work is the pnoduct of the disciplined and creative sist the Institute's intellectual purposes in individual mind; accorditjgly, the individual every way possible. scholar must he responsible for how he uses the Although the Institute is small when precious resources of his oivn time and energy; the measured in terms of the size of its im- community of peers in his area of intellectual work mediate academic community or of its operat- IS the ultimate judge of the results. (From ing budget, its intellectual weight is great and Procedures for Academic Governance of its influence on science and scholarship ex- THE Institute.) traordinary. From its earliest years, it has been internationally recognized as one of the world's leading centers of research. Indeed, The Institute for Advanced Study, an inde- its successful example has created numerous pendent, private institution devoted to the imitators both in the United States and encouragement, support and patronage of abroad. learning, was founded in 1930 as a commu- From the beginning the Institute has been nity of scholars where intellectual inquiry an international institution, although Ameri- could be carried out in the most favorable cir- can in location and organizaHonal form. It cumstances. Focused on mathematics and has operated throughout its existence on the classical studies at the outset, the Institute premise that science and learning transcend today consists of the School of Historical national boundaries and that scholars and Studies, the School of Mathematics, the scientists are members of one republic of the School of Natural Sciences and the School of spirit. Of the present Faculty, many have Social Science. Each School has a small per- begun their scienhfic and scholarly careers manent Faculty, and some 160 fellowships outside the United States. One-third of the are awarded annually to visiHng members visiting members come from abroad, mostly from other research institutions and univer- from the great centers of learning of Western sities throughout the world. Europe and, to a lesser extent, from other re- The objectives of the Institute were de- gions of the world. scribed as follows in the Founders' original With its devotion to the continuing exami- letter to the first Trustees: "The primary pur- nation of new and centrally important ques- pose is the pursuit of advanced learning and tions as they arise at the frontiers of knowl- exploration in fields of pure science and high edge, the Institute partakes of the character scholarship to the utmost degree that the fa- of both a university and a research institute, ciliHes of the institution and the ability of the while differing in significant ways from both. faculty and students will permit." During the It is unlike a university, for instance, in its past half-century, these goals have been im- small size—its academic membership annu- plemented by a Faculty of exceptional merit; ally numbers somewhat under 200—and in by an annually renewed group of carefully the fact that it has no formal curriculum, no selected visiting members; and by the de- scheduled courses of instruction, no com- 10 Background and Purpose mitment that all branches of learning be seminars are a regular feature of its internal represented in its Faculty and members. It is life. The choice and conduct of research and unlike the usual research institute in that it study are matters which are decided entirely supports many separate fields of study, by each individual member of the Institute. maintains no laboratories and determines its The Institute is nonetheless an intellectual programs in terms of individual intellectual community and not a mere collection of imperatives rather than the collective aims of scholars. Community is possible because research teams or the particular interests of Faculty and members have some substantial potential donors. knowledge outside their own fields of spe- For close to five decades the Institute for cialization. The fact that the visiting members Advanced Study has made a substantial con- live together in Institute housing, eat in the tribution to the world of higher learning by same dining hall, share the same common providing support—intellectual and mate- room and libraries, and carry out their work rial—to visiting members whose develop- in an institutional setting where human scale ment and growth constitute one of its princi- has been carefully maintained is conducive to pal purposes. More than half of these visiting common interest, mutual understanding and members are young men and women 35 friendship. years of age or less whose work at the Insti- The Faculty and members of the Institute tute involves the Faculty in a substantial are also a part of the larger community of amount of postdoctoral training. Though Princeton, with its University and its many none of the visiting members are students in institutions of research and learning. Many the narrow sense of being degree candidates, Institute seminars are open to interested educational growth is still before them. members of the University's faculty and The Institute devotes special attention to graduate school, and University seminars identifying young people of accomplishment and conferences are frequently attended by and promise, and offers them membership at Institute Faculty and members. Without the a stage in their careers when independent University, Princeton itself would be both work is of the highest importance to their in- physically and intellectually inadequate as tellectual development. These younger tem- the site of the Institute; and the Institute has porary members then return to or join the brought a degree of international excellence faculHes of universities all over the world and to the general academic community of share what they have learned as a result of Princeton, contributing to the development their stay at the Institute. This might be of what has become one of the world's great termed the invisible work of the Institute; its educational centers. visible work is contained in the publications The Institute today occupies a square mile of the Faculty and visiting members. Both of land in Princeton, New Jersey. Most of this serve to reinforce in highly significant ways is farm and woodland. Its buildings house li- the quality of scholarship and research braries, offices for Faculty and members, throughout the world. seminar and lecture rooms, and common The varied work of the Institute is, of rooms. Although the Institute has no ad- course, specialized; no advanced study or ministrative or organic connection with deep scholarship can be otherwise. Formal Princeton University, there has always been attempts to organize scholarly work at the In- very close collaboration between the two in- stitute are minimized, although lectures and stitutions on matters of common interest. Report of the Chairman The publication of the 1978-79 Annual Report cluding Mr.
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