Who Got Einstein's Office?
Eccentricity And Genius At The Institute For Advanced Study
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Release Date: 22/01/1988
Eccentricity And Genius At The Institute For Advanced Study. The Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton was home to Einstein in decline, the place where Kurt Gedel starved himself in paranoid delusion, and where J. Robert Oppenheimer rode out his political persecution in the Director's mansion. This is the story of this secretive institution. It was home to Einstein in decline, the place where Kurt Goedel starved himself in paranoid delusion, and where J. Robert Oppenheimer rode out his political persecution in the Director's mansion. 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.Who Got Einstein's Office? tells for the first time the story of this secretive institution and of its fascinating personalities.