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	AllRefer.com - John Davison Rockefeller, (Business Leaders, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Frugal and industrious, Rockefeller became (1859) a partner in a produce business, and four years later, with his partners, he established an oil refinery, entering into an industry already thriving in Cleveland.
		Rockefeller was also prominent in the affairs of railroads and banks, being second only to J. Morgan in the domain of finance.
		Rockefeller personally ruled over his enormous petroleum business until 1911, when he retired with a fabulous fortune.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/RockefelJ.html (461 words)

	MSN Encarta - John D. Rockefeller
		Rockefeller was born in Richford, New York, on July 8, 1839, and educated in the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio.
		Rockefeller soon controlled 90 percent of the oil refineries in the country.
		These were the Rockefeller Foundation; the General Education Board; the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University); and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, established in 1918 and incorporated into the Rockefeller Foundation in 1929.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570872/Rockefeller_John_Davison.html (575 words)

	American Experience \| The Rockefellers \| People & Events
		Rockefeller excelled at mental arithmetic and was able to solve difficult arithmetic problems in his head -- a talent that would be very useful to him throughout his business career.
		Rockefeller’s most important error of his career was to not go public at the time with his side of the story.
		Rockefeller, at age 43, was the leader of the Trust because he was "primus inter pares" (first among his peers), not a dictator.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/rockefellers/peopleevents/p_rock_jsr.html (5631 words)

	Skeletons in the Closet: Rockefeller History
		The Rockefeller family is viewed by many as a family that has helped humanity globally, and from a humanistic perspective, one cannot dispute that some of their ventures have indeed helped in some way.
		Rockefeller is chairman of Recruiting New Teachers, Inc., an organization dedicated to improving the quality and diversity of the national teacher workforce, and he is a member of the Harvard Overseers' committee on university resources.
		Rockefeller is a trustee and the former chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Asian Cultural Council.
	www.seekgod.ca /rockefeller.htm (5173 words)

	Murder by Injection, Chapter 10, The Rockefeller Syndicate
		In exposing "the Rockefellers" as agents of a foreign power, which is not merely a foreign power, but a genuine world government, we must realize that this is not merely a group dedicated to making money, but a group which committed to maintaining the power of a colonial form of government over the American people.
		The Rockefeller family themselves, like the Morgans, Schiffs and Warburgs, have faded into insignificance, but the mechanism created in their name roars along at full power, still maintaining all of the functions for which it was organized.
		Nelson Rockefeller, named after his grandfather, died in the arms of a TV journalist it was later revealed that he had also been in the arms of another TV journalist at the same time the death was hushed up for many hours.
	www.biblebelievers.org.au /emullins.htm (9467 words)

	The Rockefeller University
		Rockefeller scientists show that microRNAs play an essential role in many development processes, including cell survival, in the fruit fly embryo.
		Rockefeller University vaccine researchers selected for grant offer from Foundation for NIH
		Since the institution's founding in 1901, 23 Nobel Prize winners have been associated with the university.
	www.rockefeller.edu (303 words)

	BRNI - Press Release 12.13.99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Institute will be the largest scientific research venture in the history of West Virginia, and the only major institute focusing on human memory in the world.
		Blanchette Rockefeller was dedicated to the preservation of health and family – serving on the Board of Trustees of the 104-year-old Community Service Society, the largest American private nonsectarian family and health agency.
		Rockefeller worked with representatives from West Virginia University, Johns Hopkins University, top researchers in neuroscience and private sector leaders for nearly two years in organizing and planning for the launch of the Institute.
	www.brni.org /Pages/PressRelease12.13.99.html (1302 words)

	American Experience \| The Rockefellers \| People & Events
		Gates worked with Rockefeller to develop a system to ensure that his philanthropic donations were put to the best possible use.
		In 1901 Gates convinced Rockefeller to found a research facility that would give "men with ideas, imagination and courage," the means to make scientific discoveries aimed at curbing infectious diseases.
		The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) was the first center in the U.S. devoted exclusively to experimental medicine, and has been the site of many biomedical breakthroughs.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/rockefellers/peopleevents/p_gates.html (656 words)

	The Rockefeller Archive Center - Papers of Individuals - Rockefeller University
		From 1941 until he joined The Rockefeller Institute in 1957, he was associated with the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Medical School, which in 1949 appointed him professor of biological chemistry.
		As a biochemist whose primary concern was the transmission, generation, and utilization of cellular energy, he proposed (in 1941) the concept of a metabolic dynamo by which energy-rich phosphate bonds continuously supply the energy needed for the work of building and repairing cells.
		In 1960, she was visiting professor at the Weizmann Institute in Rechovot at the laboratory of Ephraim Katchalski (who was later the president of Israel, Ephraim Katzir).
	archive.rockefeller.edu /collections/individuals/ru (4225 words)

	Kroc Institute : 2003-04 Rockefeller Visiting Fellowships - Application Information
		The PRCP explores the complex role of religion in contemporary conflicts, ranging from the legitimation or sacralization of violence, to participation in conflict mediation and reconciliation, to the advocacy and practice of nonviolent resistance as a religious imperative.
		Rockefeller Visiting Fellowships are open to senior and junior scholars in the humanities and social sciences, as well as religious leaders and peacebuilding practitioners, of any nationality.
		While at the Kroc Institute, all Rockefeller Visiting Fellows will be expected to produce an article suitable for publication in the Institute's Occasional Paper series, with prospects for subsequent publication in a scholarly journal, religious periodical, or other appropriate publication.
	www.nd.edu /~krocinst/research/rockefellervf.html (594 words)

	Philanthropy Magazine @ The Philanthropy Roundtable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rockefeller’s grants in this area were numerous and dynamic, and the foundation’s programs were run by men who had a passionate—and sometimes hubristic—devotion to ridding the world of disease.
		Among the discoveries of the institute in its first 20 years were methods of freezing blood (which led to the first blood bank, aiding wounded British soldiers on the Western front during World War I), the discovery of the spirochete that causes syphilis, and the invention of powerful drugs to fight sleeping sickness.
		But the Rockefeller medical effort that most resembles the funding of the Gates Foundation is its public health program, begun in 1909 when a crusading doctor named Charles William Stiles persuaded Gates and other leading Rockefeller advisers to take on hookworm, a parasite long prevalent in the South and in other tropical and subtropical climates.
	www.philanthropyroundtable.org /magazines/2001/august (3167 words)

	Hopkins Medical News: The Rockefeller Chronicle
		The Rockefeller Institute's first permanent building-Founders Hall-opened in 1906 on 13 acres of farmland on the East River between 64th and 68th streets.
		Flexner invited her to join the Institute, and in 1925, at the age of 54, she became a professor of pathology and bacteriology there.
		Bronk broadened the Rockefeller Institute into a university, and in 1954, it began awarding the Ph.D. In 1965 its name was changed to The Rockefeller University.
	www.hopkinsmedicine.org /hmn/F02/annals.html (1203 words)

	The Rockefeller Foundation: A History: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Rockefeller wrote a letter to Carnegie: I would that more men of wealth were doing as you are doing with your money but, be assured, your example will bear fruits, and the time will come when men of wealth will more generally be willing to use it for the good of others.
		Rockefeller was prepared to begin the Rockefeller Foundation in 1909, even signing a deed of trust to turn over 72,569 shares of Standard Oil of New Jersey stock worth $50 million.
		But delays and difficulties in seeking a federal charter for the Foundation, desired by Rockefeller though never obtained, resulted in a lapse until 1913, when the Foundation was officially incorporated in the state of New York.
	www.rockfound.org /Documents/180/intro.html (588 words)

	PND News - Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute Receives $15 Million Gift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute at West Virginia University has announced a $15 million gift from the Rockefeller family to expand its neurosciences research and neurological therapeutics development programs.
		The purpose of the Institute's research is to prevent, diagnose, treat, and cure neurological, psychiatric, and other cognitive disorders affecting the human brain, with an emphasis on Alzheimer's disease.
		"The mission of the Institute is to collaborate on new discoveries and treatments for neurological diseases, which so unfairly rob their victims and their families of so much," said Rockefeller, who chairs the Institute's board of directors.
	fdncenter.org /pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=3600143 (251 words)

	News and Information Services - News Release
		Construction of the $30 million Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, the world's first independent research center devoted to the study of human memory, began today (Nov. 8) on the campus of West Virginia University.
		"The Rockefeller Institute is receiving patents for its original ideas and research, and our scientists are moving toward great strides in the development of drugs to treat neurological diseases.
		Dozens of research projects are already under way in the Institute's temporary quarters at WVU and at the Johns Hopkins University.
	www.nis.wvu.edu /2004_Releases/neurosciences_groundbreaking.htm (666 words)

	The Rockefeller University Hospital - Mission and History
		The Rockefeller University, founded in 1901 as The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, was conceived by the Reverend Frederick Taylor Gates, a trusted advisor to John D. Rockefeller, Sr, who was influenced by reading Osler's Principles and Practice of Medicine.
		The institute that Gates envisioned and that its original Board of Scientific Directors created was a new research facility dedicated exclusively to the scientific study of medicine.
		The mission of basic medical science and the fundamental organization of the Institute at its inception have continued essentially unaltered, research programs have evolved markedly and there has been a steady addition of faculty, buildings and other physical resources for the support of the scientific activities of the institution.
	rucares.org /clinicalresearch/mission-history.php?printer=1 (562 words)

	Rockefeller University
		Today, renamed Rockefeller University, it is one of the foremost research centers in the world, contributing to 21 Nobel Prizes as well as numerous other awards.
		By the 1930s, Rockefeller researchers also were delving into basic research to understand, for example, the physiology of nerve cells, how the immune system works and the biochemistry of proteins essential for life.
		When Rockefeller was founded a century ago, its researchers sought to conquer infectious diseases--the biggest killers of the day--in the new century.
	company.monster.com /rocke (1035 words)

	The Johns Hopkins Gazette: January 3, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute will begin as an $80 million independent research center, which will be headquartered on the campus of West Virginia University in Morganstown; research also will be conducted at Hopkins' Montgomery County campus.
		Rockefeller worked with representatives from WVU, Hopkins, top researchers in neuroscience and private sector leaders for nearly two years in organizing and planning for the launch of the institute, which expects to begin its research operations in early 2000.
		The collaborative partnership agreement that Hopkins has signed with the Rockefeller Institute calls for an exchange of researchers, faculty and students, as well as university-wide participation and cooperation in the institute's principal areas of research.
	www.jhu.edu /~gazette/2000/jan0300/03neuro.html (482 words)

	NMAH \| Polio: Medical Philanthropy
		Three private organizations figured prominently in the history of poliomyelitis in the United States and worldwide: the Rockefeller Institute, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (March of Dimes), and Rotary International.
		Karl Landsteiner, who identified polio as a virus in 1908, joined the institute’s faculty in 1922, and studied human blood groups (for which he won a Nobel Prize in 1930).
		The institute became &ldquo;Rockefeller University” in 1965 and continues to be a leading research center for the molecular biology of human diseases.
	americanhistory.si.edu /polio/virusvaccine/medphil.htm (389 words)

	072001 - TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION ANNOUNCES $1 MILLION GIFT TO BLANCHETTE ROCKEFELLER NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE AT WVU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Institute was launched by Senator Jay Rockefeller in December 1999 and named after his mother, Blanchette Rockefeller, who died of complications from Alzheimer's disease in 1992.
		The Rockefeller Institute, headquartered on the campus of West Virginia University, is a nonprofit international medical research center focused on human memory and the development of new drugs and diagnostics to treat and diagnose neurological and cognitive disorders.
		Daniel Alkon, a renowned Alzheimer's researcher formerly of the National Institutes of Health, leads a team of world-class researchers as Scientific Director of the Institute and Director of the Base Research Program in Memory and memory Disorders.
	wvuf.org /Text/articles/t072001-toyota.htm (671 words)

	The Rockefeller University - Institute of Medicine
		The Institute of Medicine is a policy research organization that is recognized as a national resource of judgment and veracity in the analysis of issues relating to human health.
		The Institute's members are elected on the basis of their professional achievement and commitment to service.
		Fourteen members of the Institute of Medicine are currently associated with The Rockefeller University.
	www.rockefeller.edu /awards/institute_medicine (91 words)

	Studies From the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. - ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Studies From the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
		ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE, Studies From the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
		Reprints from medical research at the rockefeller institute.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/jul/6007.shtml (65 words)

	RIG Higher Education Program Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		he Rockefeller Institute’s Higher Education Program seeks practical approaches to the issues facing colleges and universities by combining the expertise of practitioners and researchers in higher education with the contributions and concerns of trustees and opinion leaders in government, labor, and business.
		The primary loyalties of scholars are increasingly directed away from their immediate colleagues, students, and institutions toward national and international societies and associations of their disciplinary peers (p.10).
		All grants made to programs in the Rockefeller Institute are managed fiscally through the Research Foundation of the State University of New York, a 501c3 Corporation.
	rockinst.org /higheduc.htm (1262 words)

	Welcome to the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government!
		The Institute conducts research on the role of state and local governments in American federalism and on the management and finances of states and localities.
		The Rockefeller Institute's final report to the U.S. Department of Labor for its study of state and local administration of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 includes findings for Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Oregon, Texas, and Utah.
		Other products from the study, including eight state case study papers, are available on the Rockefeller Institute's WIA page.
	www.rockinst.org (1244 words)

	Overview of the Rockefeller Institute of Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Institute is fast becoming the preeminent national center for the study of state government.
		The Rockefeller Institute is part of the central administration of the State University of New York with its director appointed by the SUNY Board of Trustees upon the recommendation of the Chancellor.
		The Institute draws upon the faculty and students of Rockefeller College as well as the resources of colleges and universities throughout the state in its projects.
	rockinst.org /overview/index.html (426 words)

	West Virginia University :: New Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease From Rockefeller Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Institute now holds patent protection for the use of bryostatin -- originally developed as a cancer drug -- to treat Alzheimer's disease.
		BRNI is the only non-profit institute with a dedicated study of both human memory and diseases of memory.
		Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia founded the institute in memory of his mother, who died of Alzheimer's disease.
	sev.prnewswire.com /null/20041130/CLTU04730112004-1.html (757 words)

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