In 1947 a high-ranking member of the newly created United Nations asked leading scientist Dr Theodore von Kármán for ideas on maintaining world peace. "I urged, as a first step toward permanent peace, the establishment of key international research centres, designed to attract learned men of all countries who would come to exchange ideas," von Kármán later wrote in his book The Wind and Beyond. "I envisioned a return of the vagrants or wandering scholars of the Middle Ages who would, I felt, act as ambassadors to lay the foundations of international good will."

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