Rockefeller University

The Rockefeller University (Rockefeller University) is located on the eastern side of the island of Manhattan in New York. It is a small university dedicated to biomedical sciences, the oldest institution of its kind in the American continent. The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, a precursor to the university, was founded in 1901 by John D. Rockefeller, who had previously founded the University of Chicago. The Institute changed its name to university in 1965 to include teaching among its purposes.

Nobel laureates

Since the institution's founding in 1901, 26 Nobel laureates have been associated with the university. Of these, two are Rockefeller graduates (Edelman and Baltimore) and six awardees are current members of the Rockefeller faculty (Günter Blobel, Christian de Duve, Paul Greengard, Roderick MacKinnon, Paul Nurse, and Torsten Wiesel).

The awardees are:

• 2020 Charles M. Rice
• 2011 Ralph M. Steinman
• 2003 Roderick MacKinnon
• 2001 Paul Nurse
• 2000 Paul Greengard
• 1999 Günter Blobel
• 1984 R. Bruce Merrifield
• 1981 Torsten Wiesel
• 1975 David Baltimore
• 1974 Albert Claude
• 1974 Christian de Duve
• 1974 George E. Palade
• 1972 Stanford Moore
• 1972 William H. Stein
• 1972 Gerald M. Edelman
• 1967 H. Keffer Hartline
• 1966 Peyton Rous
• 1958 Joshua Lederberg
• 1958 Edward L. Tatum
• 1953 Fritz Lipmann
• 1946 John H. Northrop
• 1946 Wendell M. Stanley
• 1944 Herbert S. Gasser
• 1930 Karl Landsteiner
• 1912 Alexis Carrel

Prince of Asturias Award

• 1994 Manuel Elkin Patarroyo

Mexican neurobiologist Arturo Álvarez Buylla, who obtained his PhD in Science in 1988 from Rockefeller University, has been awarded the 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research.