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Dole, Vincent P.
Digital Commons @ RU, 2020Co-Authors: The Rockefeller UniversityAbstract:Vincent Dole, circa 1940s Courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Center Vincent P. Dole (1913-2006) was an American physician, clinician, and professor emeritus of Rockefeller University best known for developing methadone maintenance treatment for heroin addiction with his wife, psychiatrist Marie Nyswander (1919-1986). Born in Chicago in 1913, Dole obtained his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Stanford University in 1934 before studying medicine at Harvard University, receiving his M.D. in 1939. He joined the Rockefeller Institute (which later became the Rockefeller University) in 1941, where his early research focused on the role that sodium and lipids played in metabolism, obesity, and high blood pressure. His work during this time, including a liquid diet that he developed, received professional and commercial attention. In the early 1960s, Dr. Dole became troubled by the growing drug problem in New York City and decided to devote his laboratory to the study of addiction from a metabolic perspective. He consulted Dr. Marie Nyswander, the only person working in the field at the time who considered drug addiction to be a disease and not a personality defect. During their research in 1964 and 1965, they noticed a significant difference in the ways patients responded to methadone compared to the other substances they were testing. Methadone, a synthetic opioid developed in Germany during World War II, blocked patients\u27 insatiable craving for heroin and restored their self-worth and ability to lead productive lives, as opposed to the extremely low retention rates and high relapse rates of programs that abruptly detoxed patients or attempted to eliminate their socially destructive tendencies, which Dole and Nyswander interpreted as drug-seeking behavior fueled by a disease kept in check by regular doses of methadone, comparable to a diabetic\u27s need for insulin. Dole and Nyswander received widespread recognition for their work in scientific communities and addiction communities alike. They were the recipients of the first annual Nyswander-Dole award in 1982, sponsored by the New York Urban Coalition, the New York State Division of Substance Abuse, and the Committee of Methadone Program Administrations. Dole also was the recipient of the prestigious Lasker Prize in 1988 and the Prince Mahidol Award in 1996. He was the author of over 100 scientific papers. Years at The Rockefeller University: 1941-1983; emeritus 1983 -2006https://digitalcommons.Rockefeller.edu/faculty-members/1022/thumbnail.jp
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Van Slyke, Donald D.
Digital Commons @ RU, 2020Co-Authors: The Rockefeller UniversityAbstract:Donald Van Slyke, circa 1920s Courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Center Van Slyke, Donald D. (1883-1971) was a renowned Dutch American biochemist. He received his BA and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry at the University of Michigan. In 1907 he joined the Rockefeller Institute as an assistant to chemist Phoebus A.T. Levene. In 1914 Van Slyke was appointed chief chemist of the new Rockefeller Institute Hospital. After his retirement from Rockefeller in 1948, Van Slyke continued his research at the newly established Brookhaven National Laboratory. His achievements were recognized with numerous awards and honorary degrees, including the National Medal of Science in 1965. Van Slyke was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. See also Discovering a New Amino Acid: Hydroxylysine, The Founding of Clinical Chemistry, and National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs Years at the Rockefeller Institute: 1907-1948; emeritus 1948-1971https://digitalcommons.Rockefeller.edu/faculty-members/1077/thumbnail.jp
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Feigenbaum, Mitchell J.
Digital Commons @ RU, 2020Co-Authors: The Rockefeller UniversityAbstract:Mitchell Feigenbaum, 1987. Photo by Ingbert Grüttner Feigenbaum, Mitchell J. (1944-2019) was an American mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants. Among his many accomplishments, he was the first to discover that many different physical systems follow a common “periodic doubling” path to chaos, paving the way for the emergence of the discipline known today as chaos theory. Working with Albert J. Libchaber, a Rockefeller colleague, Feigenbaum showed that this universal behavior occurred in a low-temperature fluid dynamics experiment. For this work, Feigenbaum and Libchaber won the prestigious Wolf Prize in Physics, in 1986. In the mid-1990s, Feigenbaum, working with Torsten N. Wiesel who at the time was the university’s president, was instrumental in establishing Rockefeller’s Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, a groundbreaking cross-disciplinary endeavor that aimed to broaden the scope of discussions at Rockefeller and provide access to contemporary thought in the theoretical sciences. Feigenbaum was born in Philadelphia and raised in Brooklyn, where his passion for mathematics surfaced early. Fascinated by the family radio, he initially planned to become an electrical engineer; but while completing his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at The City College of New York, he became enamored of physics, and instead went on to earn his doctorate in theoretical physics at MIT. Temporary positions at Cornell University and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute were followed by an extended stint at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he did his early work on chaos. Before coming to Rockefeller as Toyota Professor in 1987, Feigenbaum served as a visiting professor at the University; a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey; and a professor in the physics department at Cornell. In addition to the Wolf Prize, Feigenbaum we the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Award and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Physical Society. Years at The Rockefeller University: 1987-2019https://digitalcommons.Rockefeller.edu/faculty-members/1103/thumbnail.jp
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Sophie Fricke Hall
Digital Commons @ RU, 2019Co-Authors: The Rockefeller UniversityAbstract:Sophie Fricke Hall, 1964 Sophie Fricke Hall was named in recognition of the bequest of almost $1,000,000 to The Rockefeller Institute by Miss Fricke. The building was designed by the architectural firm of Harrison and Abramovitz, constructed by George A. Fuller Company, and furnished by Mrs. Patricia Berlin. Courtesy of the Rockefeller Archive Centerhttps://digitalcommons.Rockefeller.edu/the-evolving-campus/1055/thumbnail.jp
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Sophie Fricke Hall dedication
Digital Commons @ RU, 2019Co-Authors: The Rockefeller UniversityAbstract:Sophie Fricke Hall dedication, 1964 Courtesy of The Rockefeller Archive Center From left to right: V. de Vignaud, David Rockefeller, unidentified, Dr. Robbinshttps://digitalcommons.Rockefeller.edu/the-evolving-campus/1057/thumbnail.jp
William Feindel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Rockefellers to the rescue
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2006Co-Authors: William FeindelAbstract:Rockefeller Foundation funding and medical education in Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax Marianne P. Fedunkiw, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press; 2005 201 pp $75 (cloth) ISBN 0–7735–2897–0 Between 1920 and 1935 the Rockefeller Foundation gave Canadian medical schools more
Peter L Laurence - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the death and life of urban design jane jacobs the Rockefeller foundation and the new research in urbanism 1955 1965
Journal of Urban Design, 2006Co-Authors: Peter L LaurenceAbstract:Between 1955 and 1965, the Rockefeller Foundation responded to the urban crises created by the pre- and post-war housing shortage and heavy-handed urban renewal strategies by sponsoring urban design research projects by Kevin Lynch, Jane Jacobs, E. A. Gutkind, Ian McHarg, Christopher Tunnard, Ian Nairn, Edmund Bacon, Christopher Alexander and others. Drawing on documents from the Rockefeller Foundation Archives, this paper considers the state of urban design theory after World War II and outlines the major sponsored research projects. The work of Jane Jacobs, who was closely involved with the Foundation's urban design research programme, is examined in greater detail, while the early research of Gyorgy Kepes and Kevin Lynch, which became The Image of the City (1960), will be considered in a subsequent paper.
Soma Hewa - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Introducing Modern Nursing to Sri Lanka: Rockefeller Foundation and Colombo School of Nursing
Galle Medical Journal, 2014Co-Authors: Soma HewaAbstract:This paper examines the Rockefeller Foundation's nursing program at the Colombo School of Nursing from 1948 to 1952. With a $20,000 grant and two North American nursing instructors, the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored a modern nursing education program in Sri Lanka. The project succeeded in spite of many obstacles. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/gmj.v19i1.6960 Galle Medical Journal 2014 19(1): 17-22
Susan Gross Solomon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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giving and taking across borders the Rockefeller foundation and russia 1919 1928
Minerva, 2001Co-Authors: Nikolai Krementsov, Susan Gross SolomonAbstract:Until recently, the links between Rockefeller philanthropies and Russianscience and medicine during the 1920s have been virtually ignored, both inofficial Foundation histories and in Soviet accounts of foreign scientificrelations. Materials from the newly-opened Russian archives and the Rockefeller Archive Center reveal dense and tangled connections between multiple Rockefeller givers and multiple Russian takers. Examining the `Russian matter' from the perspective of both `givers' and `takers', this article highlights the impact of domestic and international politics on giving and taking across borders, and reveals the range of meanings of`internationalism' in philanthropy.
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Giving and Taking across Borders: The Rockefeller Foundation and Russia, 1919–1928
Minerva, 2001Co-Authors: Nikolai Krementsov, Susan Gross SolomonAbstract:Until recently, the links between Rockefeller philanthropies and Russianscience and medicine during the 1920s have been virtually ignored, both inofficial Foundation histories and in Soviet accounts of foreign scientificrelations. Materials from the newly-opened Russian archives and the Rockefeller Archive Center reveal dense and tangled connections between multiple Rockefeller givers and multiple Russian takers. Examining the `Russian matter' from the perspective of both `givers' and `takers', this article highlights the impact of domestic and international politics on giving and taking across borders, and reveals the range of meanings of`internationalism' in philanthropy.
