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Founder's Hall (2022) The FDR Drive runs under the campus. The Rockefeller University was founded in June 1901 as The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research—often called simply The Rockefeller Institute [7] —by John D. Rockefeller, who had founded the University of Chicago in 1889, upon advice by his adviser Frederick T. Gates [1] and action taken in March 1901 by his son, John D ...
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Founder's Hall was the first building built on the campus of Rockefeller University at 66th Street and York Avenue, in Manhattan, New York City. [3] Built between 1903 and 1906, [4] it represents an instance of one of John D. Rockefeller's largest scale efforts at philanthropy, and housed the nation's first major biomedical research laboratory.
Frederick Seitz (July 4, 1911 – March 2, 2008) was an American physicist, a pioneer of solid state physics, and climate change denier.Seitz was the 4th president of Rockefeller University from 1968 to 1978, and the 17th president of the National Academy of Sciences from 1962 to 1969.
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From 1953 to 1968 Bronk was president of The Rockefeller University. (The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was renamed The Rockefeller University in 1965). He firmly espoused academic freedom and resisted attempts by Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy to have Johns Hopkins University dismiss Professor Owen Lattimore .
Ralph Marvin Steinman (January 14, 1943 – September 30, 2011) [2] was a Canadian physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 discovered and named dendritic cells while working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Zanvil A. Cohn, also at Rockefeller University.
The Rockefeller University (formerly The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research) René Jules Dubos (February 20, 1901 – February 20, 1982) was a French-American microbiologist , experimental pathologist , environmentalist , humanist , and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book So Human An Animal . [ 2 ]