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The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. [3] The foundation was created by Standard Oil magnate John D. Rockefeller ("Senior") and son "Junior", and their primary business advisor, Frederick Taylor Gates, on May 14, 1913, when its charter was granted by New York. [4]
John Paul (25 April 1922 – 27 June 1994) was a biomedical research scientist living in Scotland, UK. He was the founding director of the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow, Scotland. [ 1 ]
The Rockefeller family (/ ˈ r ɒ k ə f ɛ l ər / ROCK-ə-fell-ər) is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world's largest fortunes. The fortune was made in the American petroleum industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by brothers John D. Rockefeller and William A. Rockefeller Jr., primarily through Standard Oil (the predecessor of ...
John D. Rockefeller is considered to be the wealthiest American of all time, earning his immense fortune after gaining control of 90 percent of American oil production in the late 1800s. The oil ...
While the Rockefeller Archive Center was initially conceived as a repository for records of Rockefeller University and Rockefeller Family philanthropic projects, it now more broadly contains the records of over 40 organizations and more than 100 individuals, including the Social Science Research Council, Asia Society, the Ford Foundation, Trilateral Commission, Russell Sage Foundation ...
Rockefeller Foundation United States: New York City: $6.3 billion 1913 [35] 32 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation United States: New York City: $6.2 billion 1969 [18] 33 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation United States: Chicago: $6 billion 1970 [18] 34 Robert Bosch Foundation Germany: Stuttgart: $6 billion €5.3 billion 1964 [36] 35
Prior to his death in 2005, John Paul II apologized for the church's abuses of children — a message that's been repeated by his successors. And in 2018, ...
In 1936, Fosdick became the president of the Rockefeller Foundation and served for the next twelve years. [27] He was the fourth president after John D. Rockefeller Jr., George E. Vincent, and Max Mason. His position as president meant he had to step down from other positions elsewhere, most notably the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association.