ABOUT THE INSTITUTE
History

Since its founding shortly after the second world war, the Institute has changed much. Below, we offer documents, historic images, and pictures of past directors that chronicle the evolving JFI.

• University of Chicago News presented a chronology on the occasion of the 50th anniversity of the Institute
  
• The First Fifteen Years, a historical account written for the fiftieth anniversary of the Institute by Ole J. Kleppa

Gallery of historic images

• West Stands in the forties and in the 50s
  
• A group shot of several professors outside of the Research Institutes
  
• Prof. Rice
  
• Professor Rice with some students
  
• Graduate student Mr. Boo working with vacuum equipment
  
• Prof. Cohen probes the complexities of a many-body problem
  
• Prof. Donnelly studies the stability of flow in liquids
  
• Chief Cuevas, an affectionate cartoon from the early '90s. (If you know who drew this, please tell me so I can give them credit.)
  
• more...

Pictures of Past Directors
To be added. T. Witten 2/15/02