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Institute for Advanced Studies

The Institute for Advanced Studies is a prestigious academic institution in Princeton, New Jersey, where trustee Lewis L. Strauss arranged a two-month visiting fellowship for Israeli nuclear program director Ernst David Bergmann in 1966.

1930 · Princeton, New Jersey, USA

The Institute for Advanced Studies is a prestigious academic institution in Princeton, New Jersey. Lewis L. Strauss was a major contributor and fundraiser for the institute, and served on its board of trustees during World War II. In the fall of 1966, Strauss used his influence to get Ernst David Bergmann a two-month appointment as a visiting fellow at the institute, despite its usual focus on physicists and mathematicians.1

  1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 7. ↩

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