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Princeton is famous for its Institute for Advanced Study, a center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry in history, mathematics, natural science, and social science. It was founded in 1930. The Institute's web page mentions, as particularly notable faculty, "[[Albert Einstein]], who remained at the Institute until his death in 1955, and distinguished scientists and scholars such as [[Kurt Gödel]], [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]], Erwin Panofsky, Homer A. Thompson, [[John von Neumann]], George Kennan and [[Hermann Weyl]]."<ref>[http://www.ias.edu/about/mission-and-history/ Institute for Advanced Study: Mission and History]</ref>
Princeton is famous for its Institute for Advanced Study, a center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry in history, mathematics, natural science, and social science. It was founded in 1930. The Institute's web page mentions, as particularly notable faculty, "[[Albert Einstein]], who remained at the Institute until his death in 1955, and distinguished scientists and scholars such as [[Kurt Gödel]], [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]], Erwin Panofsky, Homer A. Thompson, [[John von Neumann]], George Kennan and [[Hermann Weyl]]."<ref>[http://www.ias.edu/about/mission-and-history/ Institute for Advanced Study: Mission and History]</ref>
The "Princeton machine," the pioneering computer developed by Von Neumann and completed in 1952, was important in the history of computing, and transformed "computers" from specialized numerical calculators like ENIAC into the general-purpose stored-program device we know today.
The "Princeton machine," the pioneering computer developed by Von Neumann and completed in 1952, was important in the history of computing, and transformed "computers" from specialized numerical calculators like ENIAC into the general-purpose stored-program device we know today.<ref>[http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~csclub/museum/items/ias.html Princeton University's Institute of Advanced Studies IAS General Purpose Computer], image and description
In the 1900s, prior to the rise of professional football, college football received national attention and Princeton was an important team, with Princeton and Penn being traditional rivals.
In the 1900s, prior to the rise of professional football, college football received national attention and Princeton was an important team, with Princeton and Penn being traditional rivals.
It was founded as a Presbyterian institution, and in 1962 became the last of the Ivy League colleges to abolish "compulsory chapel" (required attendence at religious services.)<ref>[http://etcweb.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/mfs/05/Companion/university_chapel.html?15 The University Chapel], Princeton website</ref>
It was founded as a Presbyterian institution, and in 1962 became the last of the Ivy League colleges to abolish "compulsory chapel" (required attendence at religious services.)<ref>[http://etcweb.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/mfs/05/Companion/university_chapel.html?15 The University Chapel], Princeton website</ref>
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Princeton had an historical association with what historican E. Digby Baltzell termed "the WASP establishment." Baltzell noted "the three major upper-class institutions in America have been Harvard, Yale, and Princeton."<ref>Baltzell, E. Digby (1996). Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia. Transaction Publishers. 156000830X. (p. 249, "the three major upper-class institutions...")</ref> Of the three, Princeton was historically the preference of the Southern upper class<ref>Encyclopædia Americana, 1833, [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0vOGjiUa56VRRTeq1o4&id=yCCH_BG88JIC&pg=PA1-IA247&lpg=PA1-IA247&dq=princeton&as_brr=1 p. 247]: "The College of New Jersey at Princeton has long and justly maintained a high reputation, and numbers among its alumni many of the most eminent men of the Union, especially in the Southern States."</ref>
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==Notes and references==
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