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<html> <head> <title>Rockefeller Foundation</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/org/473/000061290/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Rockefeller Foundation ORGANIZATION Founded 1913 to "promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world." Official Website: <a href="http://www.rockfound.org/">http://www.rockfound.org/</a> Founding Date: 1913<table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/887/000023818/">Alan Alda</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Capt. Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/073/000109743/">Christopher Alexander</a></td> <td><center>Architect</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>A Pattern Language, The Nature of Order</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/152/000127768/">R. H. Barlow</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1951</tt></td> <td>Literary executor of H. P. Lovecraft</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/527/000071314/">Felix Bloch</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1983</tt></td> <td>Nuclear magnetic resonance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/662/000022596/">Norman Borlaug</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Mar-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-2009</tt></td> <td>Engineered disease-resistant wheat</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/372/000062186/">John Brademas</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Mar-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from Indiana, 1959-81</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/545/000100245/">Melvin Calvin</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1997</tt></td> <td>Deciphered photosynthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/300/000206679/">Robert F. Chandler</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jun-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Mar-1999</tt></td> <td>International Rice Research Institute</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/005/000025927/">Henry Cisneros</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jun-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Secretary of HUD, 1993-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/013/000168506/">Karl T. Compton</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jun-1954</tt></td> <td>Bikini Island atomic tests</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/778/000123409/">Richard Danzig</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Secretary of the Navy, 1998-2001</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/745/000134343/">John W. Davis</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-1873</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Mar-1955</tt></td> <td>US Solicitor General, 1913-18</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/490/000160010/">Gerard Debreu</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Dec-2004</tt></td> <td>Supply and demand theorist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/348/000129958/">Max Delbrück</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Sep-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Mar-1981</tt></td> <td>Molecular structure of viral genes (phages)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/154/000057980/">C. Douglas Dillon</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Aug-1909</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-2003</tt></td> <td>US Treasury Secretary, 1961-65</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/729/000167228/">Harold W. Dodds</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jun-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Oct-1980</tt></td> <td>President, Princeton University, 1932-57</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/359/000159879/">Orvil Dryfoos</a></td> <td><center>Publisher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Nov-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1963</tt></td> <td>New York Times Publisher, 1961-63</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/321/000028237/">John Foster Dulles</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Feb-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-May-1959</tt></td> <td>Eisenhower's Secretary of State</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/817/000130427/">Ulf von Euler</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Feb-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1983</tt></td> <td>Neurotransmitters, norepinephrine and prostaglandins</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/884/000053725/">Enrico Fermi</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Sep-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Nov-1954</tt></td> <td>First controlled nuclear chain reaction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/913/000133514/">Edmond H. Fischer</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Apr-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Protein phosphorylation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/241/000115893/">Abraham Flexner</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Nov-1866</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Sep-1959</tt></td> <td>The American College</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/472/000061289/">Raymond B. Fosdick</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jun-1883</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jul-1972</tt></td> <td>President of the Rockefeller Foundation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/163/000126782/">Ann M. Fudge</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Young & Rubicam, 2003-07</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/273/000130880/">Walter S. Gifford</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-May-1966</tt></td> <td>President of AT&T, 1925-48</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/894/000119537/">Robert F. Goheen</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Aug-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-2008</tt></td> <td>President of Princeton University, 1957-72</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/444/000170931/">Ronald E. Goldsberry</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former VP, Ford</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/522/000203910/">William C. Gorgas</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1854</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jul-1920</tt></td> <td>Malaria and yellow fever</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/641/000024569/">Stephen Jay Gould</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-2002</tt></td> <td>Evolutionary scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/600/000127219/">Rajat K. Gupta</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Dec-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Managing Partner of McKinsey, 1994-2003</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/366/000159886/">Trygve Haavelmo</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Dec-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jul-1999</tt></td> <td>Economic forecasting</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/020/000172501/">Margaret A. Hamburg</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>FDA Commissioner</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/825/000167324/">Clifford M. Hardin</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Apr-2010</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of Agriculture, 1969-71</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/584/000100284/">Odd Hassel</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-May-1897</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-May-1981</tt></td> <td>Conformational analysis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/295/000174770/">Linda A. Hill</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1957</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Harvard Business School</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/564/000100264/">Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jul-1994</tt></td> <td>Determined structure of Vitamin B12</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/741/000204129/">Johannes Holtfreter</a></td> <td><center>Zoologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jan-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Nov-1992</tt></td> <td>Chemotaxis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/738/000123369/">Richard Jenrette</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Apr-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/413/000059236/">Alfred Kinsey</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jun-1894</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Aug-1956</tt></td> <td>Researched human sexual behavior</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/793/000099496/">Lev Landau</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jan-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Apr-1968</tt></td> <td>Superfluidity of helium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/533/000128149/">David M. Lawrence</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Kaiser KHFP, 1991-2002</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/791/000055626/">Edward B. Lewis</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-2004</tt></td> <td>Drosophila researcher, Nobel laureate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/688/000167187/">Richard W. Lyman</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Oct-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-May-2012</tt></td> <td>President of Stanford University, 1971-80</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/185/000109855/">Julianne Malveaux</a></td> <td><center>Columnist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Pundit</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/752/000022686/">Benoit Mandelbrot</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Nov-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Oct-2010</tt></td> <td>Fractal mathematician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/974/000120614/">Jessica Tuchman Mathews</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Carnegie Endowment for International Peace</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/011/000083759/">Barbara McClintock</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jun-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1992</tt></td> <td>Discovered transposable genes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/078/000039958/">Eleanor Holmes Norton</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jun-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congresswoman, Washington DC</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000116975/">Michael Novak</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Sep-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000023257/">Sandra Day O'Connor</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice, 1981-2006</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/914/000128530/">James F. Orr III</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of UNUM Corporation, 1987-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/824/000031731/">Linus Pauling</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1994</tt></td> <td>Scientist and peacenik</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/548/000100248/">Max F. Perutz</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-May-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-2002</tt></td> <td>X-Ray analysis of hemoglobin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/080/000124705/">Hugh B. Price</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of the Urban League, 1994-2003</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/339/000086081/">John D. Rockefeller</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-1839</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-May-1937</tt></td> <td>Founder of Standard Oil</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/059/000052900/">John D. Rockefeller, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jan-1874</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-May-1960</tt></td> <td>Built Rockefeller Center</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/205/000172686/">John D. Rockefeller III</a></td> <td><center>Philanthropist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Mar-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jul-1978</tt></td> <td>Lincoln Center for Performing Arts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/212/000123840/">Judith Rodin</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Sep-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of UPenn, 1994-2004</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/543/000099246/">Anthony Romero</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1965</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>ACLU Executive Director</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/527/000056359/">Dean Rusk</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Feb-1909</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Dec-1994</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of State, 1961-69</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/573/000061390/">Henry B. Schacht</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Oct-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former CEO of Cummins, Lucent</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/821/000099524/">Emilio Segrè</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Apr-1989</tt></td> <td>Co-Discoverer of the antiproton</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/018/000027934/">Wole Soyinka</a></td> <td><center>Playwright</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jul-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Politically-charged Nigerian author</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/372/000124000/">Robert G. Sproul</a></td> <td><center>Educator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1975</tt></td> <td>President, University of California, 1930-58</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/118/000125740/">Frank Stanton</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Mar-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Dec-2006</tt></td> <td>President of CBS, 1946-73</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/982/000161499/">Walter W. Stewart</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>Mar-1958</tt></td> <td>Council of Economic Advisers, 1953-55</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/665/000207044/">Maurice Strong</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Apr-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Nov-2015</tt></td> <td>Power executive, environmentalist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/639/000024567/">Arthur Hays Sulzberger</a></td> <td><center>Publisher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Dec-1968</tt></td> <td>New York Times Publisher, 1935-61</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/561/000129174/">Max Theiler</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1899</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Aug-1972</tt></td> <td>Yellow fever vaccination</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/669/000129282/">Hugo Theorell</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jul-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Aug-1982</tt></td> <td>Oxidation enzymes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/679/000121316/">Clifton R. 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