"There really isn’t anywhere like the Institute. Because of its very strong postdoctoral programs in astrophysics, physics, mathematics, and other disciplines, it has been a kind of funnel through which a large fraction of all of the most productive researchers in many of the physical sciences have passed."
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Scott Tremaine, Canadian-born astrophysicist. In the IAS Book 2013 p 36
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