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Public Lecture: The Institute for Advanced Study: The First 100 YearsGeorge Dyson, Author, Historian, and past Director's Visitor (2002–03) at the InstituteI...

Public Lecture: The Institute for Advanced Study: The First 100 Years George Dyson, Author, Historian, and past Director's Visitor (2002–03) at the Institute In 1916, social theorist Thorstein Veblen called for the post-war institution of “academic houses of refuge... where teachers and students of all nationalities, including Americans with the rest, may pursue their chosen work.” In 1923, Oswald Veblen contacted Simon Flexner, who suggested “you might speak with my brother, Mr. Abraham Flexner,” thus bringing in Louis Bamberger and Carrie Fuld, whose fortunes had been launched selling…

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