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Beginning with founding Director Abraham Flexner, whose remarkable vision shaped the Institute nearly ninety years ago, successive Directors have carefully stewarded the Institute’s environment of comradeship, curiosity, freedom, and achievement.

David Nirenberg
Director 2022 –
Robbert Dijkgraaf
Director 2012 – 2022
Peter Goddard
Director 2004 – 2012
Phillip A. Griffiths
Director 1991 – 2003
Marvin L. Goldberger
Director 1987 – 1991
Harry Woolf
Director 1976 – 1987
Carl Kaysen
Director 1966 – 1976
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Director 1947 – 1966
Frank Aydelotte
Director 1939 – 1947
Abraham Flexner
Director 1930 – 1939

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