Question: Who founded an independent, postdoctoral research center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry, that had a Swiss mathematician as a permanent professor ?
Context: Paul L. Houston is Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The Georgia Institute of Technology.  Most recently, he was Dean of the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech (from 2007-2013).  He started his professorial career at Cornell University in 1975 following undergraduate study at Yale, doctoral work at MIT, and postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley.  He was formerly Chair of the Cornell Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (1997–2001), Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (2002–2005), and the Peter J. W. Debye Professor of Chemistry.  He was a member of the Cornell Center for Materials Research, the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, and the Graduate Field of Applied Physics.  Dr. Houston has held visiting positions at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (1982), Columbia University (1986, 1987), the Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan (1989), the University of California at Berkeley (2003), and the University of Rome La Sapienza (2001, 2006).  He has been an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1979–81), a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar (1980), and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (1986–87).  He served as a Senior Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry (1991–97), as Chair of the American Physical Society Division of Laser Chemistry (1997–98), and as a member of the Science and Technology Steering Committee of Brookhaven National Laboratories (1998–2005).  Houston has authored or co-authored over 160 publications in the field of physical chemistry and a textbook on chemical kinetics.  In 2001 he shared with David W. Chandler the Herbert P. Broida Prize of the American Physical Society for work on product imaging in chemical dynamics.  He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. Anna Krylov is the Gabilan Distinguished Professor in Science and Engineering and a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California (USC) working in the area of theoretical and computational quantum chemistry.  Born in Donetsk, Ukraine (May 6, 1967), Krylov received her M.Sc.  (with honors) in Chemistry from Moscow State University and later her Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working under the supervision of Professor Robert Benny Gerber.  Her Ph.D. research at the Fritz Haber Center focused on molecular dynamics in rare gas clusters and matrices.  Upon completing her Ph.D. in 1996, she joined the group of Prof. Martin Head-Gordon at the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral research associate, where she became involved with electronic structure method development.  In 1998, she joined the Department of Chemistry at USC. Professor Dominic Tildesley (born 1952, Forest Hill) is a British chemist.  He gained his undergraduate Chemistry degree from the University of Southampton in 1973.  He went on to complete a DPhil at Oxford University in 1976 before undertaking postdoctoral research at Penn State and Cornell universities in the United States.  He returned to the University of Southampton in the UK for a lectureship, before becoming Professor of Theoretical Chemistry and moving to Imperial College London in 1996 as Professor of Computational Chemistry. Armand Borel (21 May 1923 – 11 August 2003) was a Swiss mathematician, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, and was a permanent professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States from 1957 to 1993.  He worked in algebraic topology, in the theory of Lie groups, and was one of the creators of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups. Claus O. Wilke is a computational and evolutionary biologist and chair of the Department of Integrative Biology at University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Dwight W. and Blanche Faye Reeder Centennial Fellow in Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, and currently holds the Joseph J. & Jeanne M. Lagowski Regents Professorship in Molecular Bioscience.  Wilke obtained a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the Ruhr University Bochum in 1999, and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the California Institute of Technology in the lab of Chris Adami.  He moved to UT Austin as an Assistant Professor in 2006, where he is now professor, department chair, and director of the Wilke Lab.  Wilke studies the evolution of molecules and viruses using theoretical and computational methods.  He is also the author of the Cowplot and Ggjoy plotting packages. The New School for Social Research (NSSR) is an educational institution that is part of The New School.  The school's dedication to academic freedom and intellectual inquiry reaches back to the university’s founding in 1919 as a home for progressive thinkers.  The New School for Social Research explores and promotes global peace and justice as more than theoretical ideals.  The New School for Social Research enrolls more than 1,000 students from all regions of the United States and from more than 70 countries. The Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge is the chemistry department of the University of Cambridge.  It was formed from a merger in the early 1980s of two separate departments that had moved into the Lensfield Road building decades earlier: the Department of Physical Chemistry (originally led by Professor Ronald Norrish FRS, Nobel Laureate; the department was previously located near the Old Cavendish in Free Street - see photo) and the Department of Chemistry (that included theoretical chemistry and which was led by Lord Alexander R. Todd FRS, Nobel Laureate) respectively.  Research interests in the department cover a broad of chemistry ranging from molecular biology to geophysics.  The department is located on the Lensfield Road, next to the Panton Arms on the South side of Cambridge.  s of 2015 the department is home to around 200 postdoctoral research staff, over 250 postgraduate students, around sixty academic staff. The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent, postdoctoral research center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry founded in 1930 by American educator Abraham Flexner, together with philanthropists Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. Huping Ling (; born 1956) is a professor of history, the founder of the Asian studies program, and the past department chair at Truman State University.  She is the Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor by the Chinese Ministry of Education at Wuhan Theoretical Research Center of Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council and China Central Normal University, and a Visiting Professor of the Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies at Jinan University.  She is the inaugural book series editor "Asian American Studies Today" for Rutgers University Press and served as the Executive Editor for the Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS 2008-2012).  She also serves as a consultant to the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Guangdong Provincial Government and on the Board of Directors of Women Writers Association in Shanxi Province of the Chinese National Writers Association.  A Ford Foundation Prize-winning author, she has published eleven books and over hundred articles on Asian American studies, including immigration and ethnicity, assimilation and adaptation, transnationalism, family and marriage, employment patterns, and community structures. The Center for BrainHealth, part of The University of Texas at Dallas' school of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, is a research institute focused exclusively on brain health that combines brain research with clinical interventions.  Founded by Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman in 1999, the Center for BrainHealth houses 125 researchers, postdoctoral research fellows, doctoral students, master’s students, and research clinicians who work on 60 privately and federally funded research projects.  The Center provides academic training and houses specialists in, among many others, Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury (TBI), healthy brain aging, autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), stroke, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  To help raise awareness of and funding for research underway at the Center for BrainHealth, a number of proponent groups have formed.  These include the Think Ahead Group (TAG) of young professionals and Friends of BrainHealth.
Answer: Abraham Flexner