Rockefeller Institute - Definition and Overview

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.

External links

• Rockefeller University (http://www.rockefeller.edu/)
• Rockefeller University Hospital (http://www.rucares.org/)