In the late 1960s, Emil Gotschlich, a member of the laboratory of Maclyn McCarty, built on decades of Rockefeller research to develop effective vaccines against meningitis. From 1966 to 1968, Gotschlich developed novel methods to isolate highly purified meningococcal capsular polysaccharides from serotypes A, B, and C and showed that injection of 50 mg of group A or group C polysaccharide induced human beings to rapidly produce specific antibodies, and that these were able to kill meningococci. In 1970 he demonstrated the group C polysaccharide was 90 percent effective in preventing meningitis in military recruits. Photo by Lubosh Stepanek ; https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/milestones_microbiology/1012/thumbnail.jpg
Soon after returning home [1946] I accepted my uncle Winthrop Aldrich's offer to join the Chase. It was not easy decision because I still had a strong interest in working for government or in the not-for-profit sector. …for the next thirty-five years I devoted myself to the fascinating and personally rewarding life of a commercial banker. …my career at Chase provided me with a strong challenge and different, thought equally satisfying, ways to participate in civic and government affairs. David Rockefeller. Memoirs Photo by Lubosh Stepanek ; https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/rockefellers_art_of_giving/1029/thumbnail.jpg
The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize An International Award Recognizing Outstanding Women in Biomedical Research 2014 recipient Lucy Shapiro, Ph.D. The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, awarded by The Rockefeller University, was established by the late Dr. Paul Greengard, who served as the University's Vincent Astor Professor, and his wife, the sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard. Dr. Greengard donated his entire monetary share of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Rockefeller and, in partnership with generous supporters of the University, created this major international prize that recognizes the accomplishments of outstanding women scientists. Each year, the University invites a woman who has achieved distinction in such fields as government, international relations, business, journalism, science, and the arts to speak at the award ceremony and present the Prize. It is named in memory of Dr. Greengard's mother, who died giving birth to him. ; https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/posters/1209/thumbnail.jpg
The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize An International Award Recognizing Outstanding Women in Biomedical Research 2013 recipient Huda Yzoghbi, M.D. The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, awarded by The Rockefeller University, was established by the late Dr. Paul Greengard, who served as the University's Vincent Astor Professor, and his wife, the sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard. Dr. Greengard donated his entire monetary share of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Rockefeller and, in partnership with generous supporters of the University, created this major international prize that recognizes the accomplishments of outstanding women scientists. Each year, the University invites a woman who has achieved distinction in such fields as government, international relations, business, journalism, science, and the arts to speak at the award ceremony and present the Prize. It is named in memory of Dr. Greengard's mother, who died giving birth to him. ; https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/posters/1192/thumbnail.jpg
Alphonse Dochez, ca. 1920 U.S. National Library of Medicine Alphonse R. Dochez received the BA (1903) and the MD (1907) from Johns Hopkins. After a year of research in pathology at Johns Hopkins, he joined the Rockefeller Institute in 1908. Dochez worked first with Eugene Opie, and in 1910, when the Hospital opened, he became an assistant resident and bacteriologist to the hospital. For the next several years he contributed to studies on pneumococcus, working closely with Oswald Avery. After serving in the Army Medical Corps during World War I, he returned to the Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1919, as an associate professor. In 1921 he moved to Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons as professor of medicine, where he remained until his retirement in 1949. He made an important contribution to science in demonstrating the direct relationship between streptococcal pharyngitis and scarlet fever. Dochez served on Rockefeller's Board of Directors from 1935-1953. He received the Medal of Merit for his service to the federal government during World War II and was awarded the Kober Medal and the Medal of the New York Academy of Medicine. His achievements were also recognized by election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1933) and honorary degrees from Yale (1926), New York University (1925), and Western Reserve (1931). ; https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/hospital-of-institute/1023/thumbnail.jpg
The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize An International Award Recognizing Outstanding Women in Biomedical Research 2009 recipient Suzanne Cory, Ph.D., F.R.S. Special Guest and Speaker Wafaa El-Sadr, M.D., M.P.H. Director, International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs, Columbia University, 2008 MacArthur Fellow The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, awarded by The Rockefeller University, was established by the late Dr. Paul Greengard, who served as the University's Vincent Astor Professor, and his wife, the sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard. Dr. Greengard donated his entire monetary share of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Rockefeller and, in partnership with generous supporters of the University, created this major international prize that recognizes the accomplishments of outstanding women scientists. Each year, the University invites a woman who has achieved distinction in such fields as government, international relations, business, journalism, science, and the arts to speak at the award ceremony and present the Prize. It is named in memory of Dr. Greengard's mother, who died giving birth to him. ; https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/posters/1121/thumbnail.jpg
The Insight Lecture Series fosters wide-ranging discussions of issues in sciences, health, politics, and the arts in the Rockefeller campus community. The lectures are open to Rockefeller faculty, students, postdocs, and staff, as well as to colleagues in the Tri-Institutional network. Initiated by Rockefeller University faculty member Professor Zanvil Cohn, M.D. in 1990, and called the "Cohn Forum" during its early years, the lectures became the Insight Lecture Series in 2004. ; https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/posters/1052/thumbnail.jpg
Abraham Pais. Niels Bohr's times: in physics, philosophy, and polity The life of Niels Bohr spanned times of revolutionary change in science itself as well as its impact on society. Along with Albert Einstein, Bohr can be considered to be this century's major driving force behind the new philosophical and mathematical descriptions of the structure of the atom and the nucleus. Abraham Pais, the acclaimed biographer of Albert Einstein, here traces Bohr's progress from his well-to-do origins in late nineteenth-century Denmark to his position at center stage in the world political scene, particularly during the Second World War and the development of atomic weapons. Pais' description moves through the science as it was before Bohr, as it became because of Bohr, and thence to Bohr's scientific and philosophical legacy. That legacy is contained both in theory as it is now universally enshrined, as well as in its practice in such great Danish institutions as Riso. But more than that, Pais captures the essence of Bohr, the intensely private family figure who, despite appalling personal tragedy, became one of the most loved cultural figures of recent times. ; https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/ru-authors/1140/thumbnail.jpg
Homer Swift, circa 1940s Courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Center Swift, Homer Fordyce (1881-1953) was an American physician and scientist. Born in Paines Hollow, New York, to Charles Fayette and Nancy Maria (Fordyce) Swift. He attended Adrian College (Michigan) 1898-1900 and received a Ph. B. from Western Reserve University, Cleveland in 1902. From 1902 to 1904, Swift attended Western Reserve Medical School and later graduated MS. from New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1906. From 1906 through 1908, Swift was an intern at Presbyterian Hospital in New York. He served as an assistant in Pathology and Dermatology at New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1908 until 1910. In 1910, Swift received an appointment as an assistant and assistant resident physician at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research's hospital and in 1912 he was made an associate. During this period, Swift's research focused on evaluating the use of salvarsan, a chemotherapeutic drug developed by Paul Ehrlich, for the treatment of syphilis. The treatment that he helped develop was known as the Swift-Ellis method and was widely employed at the time. In 1914, Swift accepted an appointment as Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, a position he held until 1917 at which time he took a similar post at Cornell University School of Medicine. Shortly thereafter, Swift obtained a leave to join the Presbyterian Hospital's military unit sent to Europe once the United State joined World War I. During the war, Swift was appointed Consultant to the First Army Corps and then the Third Army Corps. he also became a member of the American Red Cross Trench Fever Commission which looked for a cause and studied the effects of this louse-born malady. After World War I, Homer Swift returned to New York again joining the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, initially as an associate member and then as a member (1922). During this period, he studied different varieties of streptococci. Swift also investigated the mechanism of rheumatism and its link to streptococcus infections. In this work, he collaborated with Rebecca C. Lancefield. In 1946, Swift retired but continued his investigations as a member emeritus of the Institute. Shortly before he died in 1953, he was recognized for his accomplishments in the study of rheumatic fever and was awarded the Distinguished Service Award of the American Rheumatism Association. See also Modifying the First Drug Against Syphilis to Treat Central Nervous System Disease Years at the Rockefeller Institute: 1910-1914; 1919-1946; emeritus 1946-1953 ; https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/faculty-members/1070/thumbnail.jpg
Alphonse Dochez, ca. 1920. Photo by Louis Schmidt Courtesy of U.S. National Library of Medicine Alphonse Raymond Dochez (April 21, 1882 – June 30, 1964) was an American physician and microbiologist. His research focused on infectious diseases including scarlet fever, the common cold, and pneumococcal pneumonia. Dochez is credited with developing the first effective treatment for scarlet fever. His work also established viruses as the cause of the common cold. Dochez received the BA (1903) and the MD (1907) from Johns Hopkins. After a year of research in pathology at Johns Hopkins, he joined the Rockefeller Institute in 1908. He worked first with Eugene Opie, and in 1910, when the Hospital opened, he became an assistant resident and bacteriologist to the hospital. For the next several years he contributed to studies on pneumococcus, working closely with Oswald Avery. After serving in the Army Medical Corps during World War I, he returned to the Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1919, as an associate professor. In 1921 he moved to Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons as professor of medicine, where he remained until his retirement in 1949. He made an important contribution to science in demonstrating the direct relationship between streptococcal pharyngitis and scarlet fever. Dochez served on Rockefeller's Board of Directors from 1935-1953. He received the Medal of Merit for his service to the federal government during World War II and was awarded the Kober Medal and the Medal of the New York Academy of Medicine. His achievements were also recognized by election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1933) and honorary degrees from Yale (1926), New York University (1925), and Western Reserve (1931). See also First Comprehensive Analysis of the Natural History of Poliomyelitis and Rufus Cole, the Guiding Philosophy of the Rockefeller Hospital, and the First Effective Therapy for Lobar Pneumonia Years at the Rockefeller Institute: 1908-1919 ; https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/scientific-staff/1010/thumbnail.jpg
Alexis Carrel at the Rockefeller Institute after World War I, ca. 1919 Courtesy of Theodor Malinin Alexis Carrel was born and educated in Lyons, France, and he received his medical degree from the University of Lyons in 1900. He remained there, teaching and doing research, until 1904. That year, after a short stay in Montreal, he took a research position at the University of Chicago. In 1906, Simon Flexner invited Carrel to join the Rockefeller Institute, where he remained until 1939. Carrel returned to France that year, as World War II began in Europe. During the early 1940s, in Paris, he headed a Foundation for the Study of Human Problems, which was supported by the Vichy government. Carrel's extreme views on politics and religion remain a subject of controversy. See also Pioneering Surgery to Repair Blood Vessels and Transplant Organs and Growing Mammalian Cells and Tissues in Culture Exhibit Odyssey in Science and Medicine ; https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/faculty-members/1014/thumbnail.jpg
Sterne, Laurence. The works of Laurence Sterne. In eight volumes complete. Containing: I Tristram Shandy, and the political romance. II sentimental journey, with the continuation. III the Koran… IV letters . V sermons. With an account of the life and writings of the author, 1790 Subjects: Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 Language: English ; https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/rare-books/1075/thumbnail.jpg
Xenophon. Cyrupaedia: the institution and life of Cyrus, the first of that name, king of Persians: eight bookes, treating of noble education, of princely exercises, military discipline, vvarlike stratagems, preparations and expeditions, 1632 Full text Subjects: Cyrus – the Great, King of Persia – 530 B.C. or 529 B. C. Iran – History – To 640 Notes: Translated out of Greek into English, and conferred with the Latine and French translations by Philemon Holland Language: English ; https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/rare-books/1131/thumbnail.jpg
