Robbert Dijkgraaf Elected to American Philosophical Society

Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study and Leon Levy Professor, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society in its Mathematical and Physical Sciences Class. Among the thirty-four other leading scholars recently elected for membership are four former Institute Members and Visitors. The American Philosophical Society is the nation's oldest learned society, founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of "promoting useful knowledge."