Who founded an independent, postdoctoral research center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry, that had a Swiss mathematician as a permanent professor ?
Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent, postdoctoral research center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry founded in 1930 by American educator Abraham Flexner, together with philanthropists Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld.
Fritz Medicus Fritz Medicus (April 23, 1876-January 13, 1956) was a German-Swiss philosopher. He was awarded his doctorate while studying in Jena, with the publication of his dissertation, "Kant's transcendental aesthetics and non-euclidian geometry". He was the Chair of Philosophy at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, and moved to ETH Zurich in 1911. Medicus wrote in the tradition of German idealism.