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Introduction
Fort Tryon Park and the Cloisters
International House
Riverside Church
Museum of the City of New York
The Asia Society
The Rockefeller University
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
United Nations
Greenacre Park
Museum of Modern Art
Rockefeller Center
Judson Memorial Church and Judson Hall
Chase Manhattan Plaza
26 Broadway, Former Headquarters of the Standard Oil Company
About the Authors
Rockefeller New York

A tour by Henry Hope Reed
Photographs by Esther Bubley

THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY

York Avenue and 65th Street

The Rockefeller University was founded in 1901 by John D. Rockefeller as the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. It obtained its present name in 1965. The land, the northern portion of which, once slated to become a city park, belonged to the Schermerhorn family, was purchased for the Institute. Opposite the entrance, Founder's Hall was built in 1906 on designs by Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge of Boston.

The Institute had its origin in a memorandum written in 1897 by Fred T. Gates after reading William Osler's Principles and Practice of Medicine. It has since gone well beyond the customary medical research to animal behavior, logic, mathematics, and theoretical physics, all of which, of course, have application to medicine.

The Rockefeller University is an extraordinary organization, even if we overlook the ratio of 300 staff to 100 students. Nineteen Nobel Prize winners have been associated with it, 9 honored for work done here. Presently there are 5 Nobelists on the faculty. It was here that the Rh blood factor was discovered, as well as DNA, the function of which was also identified here. One Nobelist studied the optic nerve of the horseshoe crab to find more about human vision. Another deciphered the structure of the antibody molecule, one of the body's chief defenders against disease.

Were the Rockefeller University in any other city it would loom very large. In New York it is seen as just another group of buildings overlooking the East River.

Four Rockefellers are connected with the University. David, his son, Richard, and daughter, Neva, are trustees. Steven, Jr., Nelson's grandson, is a member of the Rockefeller Council, an advisory body.

Entrance gate to the Rockefeller University with Founder's Hall in the distance.

Scientists engaged in AIDS research, Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology, the Rockefeller University. From left to right, Juliana McElrath, M.D.; Erik Langhoff, M.D.; Anthony Catarzaro, M.D.

Rafael Mira-y-Lopez, M.D., Ph.D., Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology

John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Jo Davidson in Founder's Hall, the Rockefeller University.


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