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Hartle was one of the founders of KITP, initially called the Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP). In the 1970s the National Science Foundation put out a call for proposals to establish a center for theoretical physics. Jim and three of his colleagues at UC Santa Barbara put together the winning proposal, and the institute opened in 1979. That whole concept was the unity of theoretical physics how its one discipline and that was the founding idea of the ITP, said Oxford professor John Cardy. Hartle served as its director from 1995 to 1997, hiring Nobel Laureate David Gross to take over his post.

The events attendees shared stories of Hartles brilliance, patience and humor. There was a certain time of day, about five minutes before noon, when Jim would knock on my door and say, Are you going to lunch? Cardy recalled. He, himself always brought his lunch in a brown bag that was labeled brown bag.

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Physicists gather to remember the father of quantum cosmology - The UCSB Current