- Paul Nurse
Sir Paul M. Nurse, FRS, (b. January 25, 1949) is a British biochemist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and R. Timothy Hunt for their discoveries regarding cell cycle regulation by cyclin and cyclin dependent kinases. Nurse's parents came from Norfolk. He was born and raised in Wembley, in north-west London, and was educated at Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
- Paul Greengard
Dr. Greengard's interests have ranged from basic neural explorations to the development of therapeutic agents for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases. His quest has significantly advanced scientific understanding of the molecular basis of nerve-cell communication. In 2000, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to elucidating how neurotransmitters work in signal transduction in the nervous system. *
- Elaine Fuchs
Elaine Fuchs is a cell biologist, famous for her work on the biology and molecular mechanisms of mammalian skin and skin diseases, and has led the modernization of dermatology. Fuchs also pioneered reverse genetics approaches, which assess protein function first and then assesses its role in development and disease. In particular, Fuchs researches skin stem cells, and their production of hair and skin.
- Bruce McEwen
BRUCE MCEWEN , director of the Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University, reports on the growing problem of stress and reveals the damage it can inflict on both biological health and cognitive abilities, such as memory.
- Frederick Seitz
Seitz received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1932, and then a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1934. During World War II, he worked on military applications of research, including the atomic bomb. His 1940 textbook, The Modern Theory of Solids, was very important to the development of solid-state physics and of transistors. He had taught at several universities.
- Roderick MacKinnon
Roderick MacKinnon (born 19 February 1956 in Burlington, Massachusetts) is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter Agre in 2003 for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels.
- David Baltimore
David Baltimore (b. March 7, 1938) is an American biologist and one of the recipients of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He is currently the Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he was the president from 1997 to 2006. He is also currently the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Baltimore was born in New York City.
- Günter Blobel
Günter Blobel is a German American biologist. Blobel was born in Waltersdorf (Niegosławice) in the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. He graduated at the University of Tübingen in 1960 and received his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1967. He was appointed to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 1986.
- Jeffrey M. Friedman
Jeffrey Friedman, MD, PhD, is a molecular geneticist at New York City's Rockefeller University. His discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has had a major role in the area of human obesity. His work in that area has led to him receiving two prestigious awards in 2005: the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Passano Foundation Award. His work on lepitin has garnered him much television time, …
- Joel E. Cohen
Joel E. Cohen is a mathematical biologist. He is currently Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University and a professor of populations at the Earth Institute of Columbia University in New York City. Cohen grew up in Michigan and graduated from Cranbrook School in 1961. He received his B.A. in applied mathematics from Harvard University in the 1960s, and earned a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1970.
- Fernando Nottebohm
Dr Fernando Nottebohm is a preeminent neuroscientist and is the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Animal Behavior and Director of the Field Research Center for Ecology and Ethology at Rockefeller University. While his contributions to neuroscience are vast, he is most famous for providing definitive proof that neurogenesis occurs in the vertebrate brain, a notion that was considered impossible by most scientists beforehand.
- Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas (November 25 1913 - December 3, 1993) was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. Thomas was born in Flushing, New York and attended Princeton University and Harvard Medical School. He became Dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, and President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. He was invited to write regular essays in the "New England Journal of Medicine", …
- Robert G. Roeder
Robert G. Roeder (born 1942 in Boonville, Indiana) is Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor at Rockefeller University. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2003.
- C. David Allis
C. David Allis (born March 22, 1951) is currently the Joy and Jack Fishman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology at The Rockefeller University in New York City, United States. In pursuit of understanding the DNA-histone protein complex and the intricate system which allows for gene activation, the Allis lab focuses on chromatin signaling via histone modifications - acetylation, methylation and phosphorylation.
- Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics. The field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize.
- Maurice Wilkins
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins CBE FRS (15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004) was a New Zealand-born British molecular biologist, and Nobel Laureate who contributed research in the fields of phosphorescence, radar, isotope separation, and X-ray diffraction. He was most widely known for his work at King's College London on the structure of DNA, for which he, …
- Albert Claude
Albert Claude was a Belgian biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974. He studied medicine at the University of Liege (Belgium). During the winter of 1928-29 he worked in Berlin, first at the Institute für Krebsforschung, and then at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Dahlem. In the summer of 1929 he joined the Rockefeller Institute. While working at Rockefeller University in the 1930s and 1940s, …
- Norton Zinder
Norton Zinder (born November 7, 1928) is an American biologist famous for his discovery of genetic transduction. Ninder was born in New York City. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Zinder currently heads a laboratory at Rockefeller University. He became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1969
- Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26 1941, in Butte, Montana) is a prominent American writer, columnist, feminist, socialist and political activist.
- Peter Walter
Peter Walter is a German-American molecular biologist and biochemist. He earned a B.S. degree in chemistry from the Free University of Berlin, an M.S. degree in organic chemistry from Vanderbilt University, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Rockefeller University. He is currently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
- Abraham Pais
Abraham (Bram) Pais (May 19 1918, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - July 28 2000, Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Dutch-born American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch universities during World War II. When the Nazis began the forced relocation of Dutch Jews, he went into hiding, but was later arrested and saved only by the end of the war.
- Thereza Imanishi-Kari
Systemic Lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease characterized by the high production of nuclear antigen specific autoantibodies. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and signals transmitted via MyD88, a molecule downstream of several TLRs play an as yet undefined role in the disease. I am using a series of genetically engineered mice to determine the role of TLRs in the pathogenesis of SLE.
- Seth Lloyd
Seth Lloyd is a Professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. He refers to himself as a "quantum mechanic". Lloyd was born on August 2, 1960, received his AB from Harvard College in 1982, his Math.Cert. and M.Phil. from Cambridge University in 1983 and 1984, and his Ph.D. from Rockefeller University in 1988 (advisor Heinz Pagels) for a thesis entitled "Black Holes, Demons, and the Loss of Coherence: How complex systems get information, …
- Joshua Lederberg
Joshua Lederberg , one of the 20th century's leading scientists, whose work in bacterial genetics had vast medical implications and led to his receiving a Nobel Prize in 1958, died on Saturday. He was 82 and lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Rockefeller University, where Dr. Lederberg was university professor and president emeritus, announced his death on Monday, saying the cause was pneumonia.
- John D. Rockefeller III
John Davison Rockefeller III was a major philanthropist and third-generation member of the prominent Rockefeller family. He was the eldest son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (Junior) and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and the grandson of John D. Rockefeller (Senior). His siblings were Abby, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop, and David.
- Ronald M. Evans
Ronald M. Evans (born April 17, 1949, Los Angeles) is an American professor and biologist who works at Salk Institute for Biological Studies near San Diego, California. His research focus is on the function of nuclear hormone signaling and metabolism. In 2004 he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. In 2006, he won the Gairdner Foundation International Award. He has an h-index in the top ten of living biologists.
- Erich Jarvis
When he was eighteen years old, Erich Jarvis stood at a crossroads: should he be a professional dancer or a scientist? Very different directions, clearly, and Jarvis' choice - to go to college and pursue a scientific education - led him on the path towards becoming one of today's brightest young stars in the field of neurobiology. Not only is Erich Jarvis ' personal story compelling, but his dedication, perseverance, and enthusiasm for his field of science is also truly inspiring.
- Alan Aderem
Alan Aderem is a biologist, specializing in immunology and cell biology. Dr. Aderem's particular focus is the innate immune system, the part of the immune system that responds generically to pathogens. Dr. Aderem is director of The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB). Aderem co-founded the ISB with Leroy Hood and Ruedi Aebersold in 2000. Aderem is from South Africa. He received a PhD from the University of Cape Town in 1979.
- John C. Whitehead
John Cunningham Whitehead (b. April 2 1922, Evanston, Illinois) is currently the chairman of the LMDC and World Trade Center Memorial Foundation. Whitehead graduated from Haverford College in 1943 and served in the Navy during World War II, where he participated in the D-Day landing. Later he joined the prestigious New York investment bank of Goldman Sachs, …
- Mark Kac
Mark Kac (pronounced "kahts",, b. 3 August 1914, Krzemieniec, then in the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine; d. 26 October1984, California, USA) was a Polish and American mathematician of Jewish ancestry. His main interest was probability theory. His question "can you hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry.
- Jonathan Weiner
Jonathan Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of non-fiction books on his biology observations, in particular evolution in the Galápagos Islands, genetics, and the environment. Weiner graduated from Harvard University in 1976. In 1995 he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize for Science for his book "The Beak of the Finch".
- Saul Kripke
Professor Saul Kripke (Philosophy), who had been a visiting professor at The Graduate Center since Spring 2002, now joins the faculty as a Professor of Philosophy. He is known as a brilliant logician and one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. While a high school student in Nebraska, he wrote a series of papers that transformed modal logic and remain canonical works in the field.
- Donald Davidson
Donald Herbert Davidson (March 6, 1917 - August 30, 2003) was an American philosopher, who served as Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1981 to 2003, after having also held substantive teaching appointments at Stanford University, Rockefeller University, Princeton University and the University of Chicago. His work has exerted considerable influence in nearly all areas of philosophy from the 1960s onward, …
- Albert Sabin
<b>Albert Bruce Sabin</b> (August 26, 1906 - March 3, 1993) was a renowned American medical researcher of Jewish and Polish ancestry who is best-known for having developed the hugely successful oral vaccine for polio. Born in 1906 in Białystok, Russia (now Poland), to Jewish parents, he emigrated in 1921 to America with his family. In 1930, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Sabin received a medical degree from New York University in 1931.
- George A. Miller
George A(rmitage) Miller (February 3, 1920 in Charleston, West Virginia) is a famous professor of psychology at Princeton University. He formerly served as Professor of Psychology at Rockefeller University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard University, where he was Chairman of the Department of Psychology. He was a Fulbright Research Fellow at Oxford University and served as the President of the American Psychological Association.
- Joel Feinberg
Joel Feinberg (October 19, 1926 - March 29, 2004) was an American philosopher. Feinberg studied at the University of Michigan, writing his dissertation on the philosophy of the Harvard professor Ralph Barton Perry under the supervision of Charles Stevenson. He taught at Brown University, Princeton University, UCLA and Rockefeller University, and at the University of Arizona, where he retired in 1994 as Regents Professor of Philosophy and Law.
- Haldan Keffer Hartline
Haldan Keffer Hartline (December 22, 1903 - March 17, 1983) was an American physiologist who was a cowinner (with George Wald and Ragnar Granit) of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision. Hartline began his study of retinal electrophysiology as a National Research Council Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, receiving his M.D. in 1927.
- Neal E. Miller
Neal E. Miller was an American psychologist. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1909. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Washington (1931), an M.S. from Stanford University (1932), and a Ph.D. degree in Psychology from Yale University (1935).He was a social science research fellow at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, Vienna for one year (1935-36) before returning to Yale as a faculty member in 1936. He spent 30 years at Yale University (1936-1966), …
- Steven C. Rockefeller Jr.
Steven C. Rockefeller, Jr. is the only son of Steven C. Rockefeller and grandson of former United States Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and a fifth generation member of the Rockefeller family. He is President of Educational Adventures, which creates family friendly entertainment to empower children to make better safety related decisions.
- Harry Frankfurt
Harry Gordon Frankfurt (born May 29, 1929) is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University. He previously taught at Yale University and Rockefeller University. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1954 at Johns Hopkins University. His major areas of interest include moral philosophy, philosophy of mind and action, and 17th century rationalism. His 1986 paper "On Bullshit", a philosophical investigation of the concept of "bullshit", …