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Rockefeller University is a private university focusing primarily on graduate and postgraduate education research in the biomedical fields, located between 63rd and 68th Streets along York Avenue, on 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 Rockefeller family has maintained strong links with the institution throughout its history; David Rockefeller, to give just one example, is the current Honorary Chairman and Life Trustee. The Institute changed its name to Rockefeller University in 1965, after expanding its mission to include education. The Rockefeller University is a world-renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, and physics. Twenty-three Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university, an amazing figure considering that Rockefeller University houses a relatively small number of laboratories (less than 80). The university has been the site of many important scientific breakthroughs. Rockefeller scientists, for example, established that DNA is the chemical basis of heredity, discovered blood groups, showed that viruses can cause cancer, founded the modern field of cell biology, worked out the structure of antibodies, developed methadone maintenance for people addicted to heroin, devised the AIDS "cocktail" drug therapy, and identified the weight-regulating hormone leptin. Rockefeller University Community Areas of basic interdisciplinary research Health conditions under study Nobel Prize Recipients 2003 Roderick MacKinnon 2001 Paul Nurse 2000 Paul Greengard 1999 Günter Blobel 1984 R. Bruce Merrifield 1981 Torsten Wiesel 1975 David Baltimore 1974 Albert Claude 1974 Christian de Duve 1974 George E. Palade 1972 Stanford Moore 1972 William H. Stein 1972 Gerald M. Edelman 1967 H. Keffer Hartline 1966 Peyton Rous 1958 Joshua Lederberg 1958 Edward L. Tatum 1953 Fritz Lipmann 1946 John H. Northrop 1946 Wendell M. Stanley 1944 Herbert S. Gasser 1930 Karl Landsteiner 1912 Alexis Carrel Lasker Award Recipients 2003 Robert G. Roeder 1999 Roderick MacKinnon 1998 Paul Nurse 1993 Günter Blobel 1982 Hidesaburo Hanafusa 1975 Henry G. Kunkel 1969 R. Bruce Merrifield 1966 George E. Palade 1963 Lyman C. Craig 1958 Peyton Rous 1948 Rene Dubos 1947 Oswald T. Avery 1988 Vincent Dole 1978 Emil C. Gotschlich 1957 Richard E. Shope 1946 Karl Landsteiner 1946 Philip Levine (physician) 2002 James E. Darnell, Jr. 1994 Maclyn McCarty National Medal of Science Recipients 2003 James E. Darnell Jr. 1989 Joshua Lederberg 1986 George E. Palade 1979 Paul A. Weiss 1976 George E. Uhlenbeck 1974 James A. Shannon 1973 Frederick Seitz 1968 Detlev W. Bronk 1966 Fritz A. Lipmann 1965 Peyton Rous 1965 Donald D. Van Slyke 1964 Theodosius Dobzhansky Members of the National Academy of Sciences 2006 Titia de Lange‡ 2006 Charles D. Gilbert 2006 Michael E. O’Donnell 2006 Jeffrey V. Ravetch 2005 C. David Allis 2005 Charles M. Rice 2003 Cornelia I. Bargmann 2003 Barry S. Coller 2001 Jeffrey M. Friedman 2001 Ralph M. Steinman 2000 Roderick MacKinnon 1997 Joel E. Cohen 1997 Bruce S. McEwen 1996 Elaine Fuchs 1995 Jan L. Breslow 1995 Paul Nurse‡ 1994 Donald Pfaff 1991 A. James Hudspeth 1988 Mitchell J. Feigenbaum 1988 Fernando Nottebohm 1988 Robert G. Roeder 1987 Emil Gotschlich 1985 Hidesaburo Hanafusa‡ 1983 Günter Blobel 1980 Torsten Wiesel‡ 1978 Paul Greengard 1975 Kenneth M. Case 1975 Christian de Duve‡ 1975 Philip Siekevitz 1973 James E. Darnell, Jr. 1972 Vincent P. Dole 1972 R. Bruce Merrifield 1969 Norton D. Zinder 1959 Frank Brink 1957 Joshua Lederberg 1951 Frederick Seitz ‡ Foreign Associates Members of the Institute of Medicine 2005 Jeffrey M. Friedman 2002 Ralph M. Steinman 2000 Günter Blobel 1999 Barry S. Coller 1999 Paul Greengard 1998 Bruce S. McEwen 1997 Jan L. Breslow 1997 David D. Ho 1996 Torsten Wiesel 1994 Elaine Fuchs 1993 Jules Hirsch 1988 Emil C. Gotschlich 1971 Vincent P. Dole 1971 Joshua Lederberg Gairdner Foundation International Award Recipients 2005 Jeffrey M. Friedman 2003 Ralph M. Steinman 2001 Roderick MacKinnon 2000 Robert G. Roeder 1992 Paul Nurse 1986 James E. Darnell, Jr. 1982 Günter Blobel 1970 Vincent P. Dole 1970 R. Bruce Merrifield 1967 Christian de Duve 1967 George E. Palade 1964 Keith R. Porter 1962 Henry G. Kunkel MacArthur Foundation|MacArthur "Genius Grant" Recipients Robert Sapolsky Joel Cohen Mitch Feigenbaum Albert Libchaber Robert Shapley Jay Weiss Faculty history In the mid 1970's, 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 winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2003. Previous Faculty Members: Harry Frankfurt Prominent alumni Barbara Ehrenreich, social commentator and author of the 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America. Robert Sapolsky, Stanford Professor, MacArthur Grant recipient, and writer of numerous books on stress and natural history. David Baltimore, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine in 1975 for the discovery of reverse transcriptase. Has served as president of both The Rockefeller University and the California Institute of Technology. Further reading See also | |||||||
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