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2 unusual facts about Rockefeller Institute


Gertrude Perlmann

She moved in 1945 to New York City, where she worked as a visiting investigator at the Rockefeller Institute.

Rockefeller Institute

Rockefeller University, previously known as The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research


Edwin D. Kilbourne

After completion of service in the Medical Corps of the Army of the United States at the end of World War II, he trained in virus research at The Rockefeller Institute.

Emil L. Smith

He joined the lab of eminent protein chemist Max Bergmann at the Rockefeller Institute in 1940, where he worked with a number of important biochemists and began a significant line of research on the intestinal enzyme erepsin.


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Eleanor Flexner

Eleanor’s father, Abraham Flexner (1866-1959), was a leader in several fields including, with his brother Simon Flexner at the Rockefeller Institute, the reform of early 20th-century medical education and medical research in the United States and Canada.

Henry Drysdale Dakin

Due to a request for a chemist by Alexis Carrel to the Rockefeller Institute, Dakin joined Carrel in 1916 at a temporary hospital in Compiègne.

Journal of Experimental Medicine

The journal was established in 1896 at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine by William H. Welch, the school's founder and also the first president of the Board of Scientific Directors of the Rockefeller Institute (since renamed Rockefeller University).

Ruth Sager

From 1951 to 1955 was a staff member at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, using the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardi as a model organism.