Institute For Advanced Study
During Aydelotte's time as director of the Institute for Advanced Study (1939–1947) the institute had many notable faculty including: Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel, John von Neumann and James Waddell Alexander II. He also wrote The American Rhodes Scholarships;: A review of the first forty years that reviews the seven wills of Cecil Rhodes the creation of the Rhodes-Milner Round Table Groups from the first and the Rhodes Scholarships from the last.
Aydelotte was a member of the Anglo-American committee that recommended Britain allow significantly more Jews to emigrate to Palestine after World War II.
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