This is the fascinating history of the Institute for Advanced Study, which was home to fourteen Nobel laureates and most of the century\'s greatest mathematicians and physicists, including Einstein, Kurt Godel, and J.
Who Got Einstein\'s Office? tells for the first time the story of this secretive institution and of its fascinating personalities..
It is the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey; at one time or another, home to fourteen Nobel laureates, most of the great physicists and mathematicians of the modern era, and two of the most exciting developments in twentieth-century science--cellular automata and superstrings.
Robert Oppenheimer rode out his political persecution in the Director\'s mansion.
It was home to Einstein in decline, the place where Kurt Göedel starved himself in paranoid delusion, and where J.
Robert Oppenheimer.
This is the fascinating history of the Institute for Advanced Study, which was home to fourteen Nobel laureates and most of the century\'s greatest mathematicians and physicists, including Einstein, Kurt Godel, and J
