Many famous scientists were interested in philosophical questions like the nature of reality or "is God real?" and are only known as scientists because they had these ultimately philosophical concerns.
The Institute for Advanced Study is perhaps best known as the academic home of Albert Einstein, Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann and Kurt Gödel, after their immigration to the United States. ... founded in 1930 by American educator Abraham Flexner, together with philanthropists Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld.
Why not Johns Hopkins?