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  1. For another key period of his life, from 1947–66, Oppenheimer served as the Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, which is the longest tenure of any IAS Director thus far. Oppenheimer's legacy at the Institute is keenly felt today.

  2. Jul 21, 2023 · Oppenheimer stayed on as director of the Institute for Advanced Study until 1966, shortly before dying of throat cancer at his Princeton home on Feb. 18, 1967.

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  4. In 1947, Oppenheimer became the director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and chaired the influential General Advisory Committee of the newly created U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. He lobbied for international control of nuclear power to avert nuclear proliferation and a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union.

  5. The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry located in Princeton, New Jersey. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholars, including Albert Einstein , J. Robert Oppenheimer , Hermann Weyl , John von Neumann , and Kurt Gödel , many of whom had ...

  6. Apr 25, 2024 · J. Robert Oppenheimer (born April 22, 1904, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 18, 1967, Princeton, New Jersey) was an American theoretical physicist and science administrator, noted as director of the Los Alamos Laboratory (1943–45) during development of the atomic bomb and as director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1947–66).

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