On 16 September 1938, SchrГ¶dinger accepted a provisional offer of a professorship in the Institute and on 19 November 1938 he visited Dublin to attend a luncheon in the TaoiseachвЂ™s room in Leinster House along with Professors Thrift and McConnell (Trinity College), Professor Conway (University College Dublin), the Minister for Education, T. ask Professor Whittaker to prepare a scheme for a School of Theoretical Physics.OвЂ™Neill, Secretary of the Department of Education study a pamphlet on the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.ascertain from the Department of Justice whether any difficulty would arise in regard to the admission of Dr.Whittaker reported back to De Valera on 25 March 1938 that SchrГ¶dinger would like to accept an invitation from the Taoiseach to come to Dublin and that Von Laue was unavailable, although Heitler should be considered.Дe Valera then formulated his concept for a School of Theoretical Physics which might have Conway, Whittaker and SchrГ¶dinger as Professors, and he instructed his secretary, Maurice Moynihan to:

As De ValeraвЂ™s primary focus was on Mathematics (he favoured a federation which would embrace Irish learning and medical research) he requested Whittaker to make contact with SchrГ¶dinger as Max Born and Einstein were unavailable. Following discussions with his former professor, Professor Thrift, Provost of Trinity College and a successor of HamiltonвЂ™s at Dunsink, and with Professor Whittaker, former Astronomer Royal, he concluded that something should be done to revive astronomical activity at the Observatory, and that an institute of higher learning, based on the Princeton model, should be established.Д«y 1935 the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton had three Schools: Mathematics, Humanistic Studies, and Economics and Politics, with Albert Einstein as the first Professor of the School of Mathematics. Being a mathematician himself, he was acutely aware of the state of deterioration of Dunsink Observatory where Sir William Rowan Hamilton, regarded as IrelandвЂ™s most eminent mathematician, had served as Astronomer Royal. Shortly after Eamon de Valera became Taoiseach (Prime Minister of Ireland), he began to investigate the possibility of setting up an institute of higher learning.

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