Rockefeller University is a small private university focusing primarily on graduate education and research in the biomedical fields, located in the southeasternmost corner of the Upper East Side of Manhattan island in New York City, New York. The original Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was founded in 1901 by John D. Rockefeller, who had earlier founded the University of Chicago. The Institute changed its name to Rockefeller University in 1965, after expanding its mission to include education.
In the mid 1970s, Rockefeller succeeded in attracting a few prominent academics in the humanities, most notably Saul Kripke, a notable logician, philosopher of language, and expositor of the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. More recently, its faculty were co-winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1999, 2000 and 2001.
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Rockefeller University Hospital (http://www.rucares.org/)
Frugal and industrious, Rockefeller became (1859) a partner in a produce business, and four years later, with his partners, he established an oil refinery, entering into an industry already thriving in Cleveland.
Rockefeller was also prominent in the affairs of railroads and banks, being second only to J. Morgan in the domain of finance.
Rockefeller personally ruled over his enormous petroleum business until 1911, when he retired with a fabulous fortune.
Rockefeller was born in Richford, New York, on July 8, 1839, and educated in the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio.
Rockefeller soon controlled 90 percent of the oil refineries in the country.
These were the Rockefeller Foundation; the General Education Board; the RockefellerInstitute for Medical Research (now RockefellerUniversity); and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, established in 1918 and incorporated into the Rockefeller Foundation in 1929.
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