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DIrector, 1947–1966

DIrector, 1947–1966
1947 AD appointed

Oppenheimer accepts an offer from Lewis Strauss to take up the directorship of IAS. The job came with a salary of $20,000 per annum, plus rent-free accommodation in the director's house, a 17th-century manor with a cook and groundskeeper, surrounded by 265 acres (107 ha) of woodlands.

He collected European furniture, and French post-impressionist and Fauvist artworks. His art collection included works by Cézanne, Derain, Despiau, de Vlaminck, Picasso, Rembrandt, Renoir, Van Gogh and Vuillard.

This meant moving back east and leaving Ruth Tolman, the wife of his friend Richard Tolman, with whom he had begun an affair after leaving Los Alamos.

Princeton, NJ

Lattitude: 40.3573° N
Longitude: 74.6671° W
Region: North America