Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences — for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games.
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John D. Rockefeller Jr.
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. was an American financier and philanthropist. Rockefeller was the fifth child and only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. He was involved in the development of the vast office complex in Midtown Manhattan known as Rockefeller Center, making him one of the largest real estate holders in the city at that time. Towards the end of his life, he was famous f…
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business · American financier and philanthropist (1874–1960) · art collector · financier · banker · philanthropist · entrepreneur · also John D. Rockefeller Jr., Jr.
Born 29 January 1874 · Died 11 May 1960 · Q363984
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1994· 1 entry
1986· 1 entry
Sleepy Hollow Restorations became Historic Hudson Valley, which also operates the current guided tours of the Rockefeller family estate of Kykuit in Pocantico Hills
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1960· 5 entries
Died 1960-05-11.
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At the age of 86 in Tucson, Arizona, during one of his frequent visits there, where he stayed at the Arizona Inn
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“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.”
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“My mother and father raised but one question: Is it right, is it duty?”
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“As for charity, it is injurious unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.”
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1953· 2 entries
And in 1959 donated it to Sleepy Hollow Restorations
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The real estate developer William Zeckendorf bought the 740 Park Avenue apartment complex and then sold it to Rockefeller, who quickly turned the building into a cooperative, selling it on to his rich neighbors in the bu
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1951· 2 entries
To Martha Baird, the widow of his old college classmate Arthur Allen
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Established Sleepy Hollow Restorations, which brought together under one administrative body the management and operation of two historic sites he had acquired: Philipsburg Manor House in North Tarrytown, now called S
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1950· 1 entry
Won Audubon Medal (1950).
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1943· 1 entry
Won NAS Public Welfare Medal (1943).
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1940· 2 entries
And donated to the Tarrytown Historical Society), and Sunnyside, Washington Irving's home, acquired in 1945
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Rockefeller hosted Bill Wilson, one of the original founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, and others at a dinner to tell their stories
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1939· 1 entry
Was elected Fellow of the Royal Society under statute 12
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1938· 1 entry
To channel gifts to his favorite causes; previously his main philanthropic organization had been the Davison Fund
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1936· 2 entries
These properties were razed and subsequently all the land was gifted to his wife's Museum of Modern Art
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Was awarded France's highest decoration, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur, which also was awarded decades later to his son David Rockefeller
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1935· 2 entries
Received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York
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Rockefeller received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award, "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York
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1930· 2 entries
Equitable merged with Chase National Bank, making Chase the largest bank in the world at the time
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Rockefeller helped the federal government extend Yosemite National Park's boundary by 15,570 acres (63
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1929· 1 entry
Junior was elected an honorary member of the Georgia Society of the Cincinnati
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1926· 1 entry
A consulting firm whose main goal was to establish industrial relations as a recognized academic discipline at Princeton University and other institutions
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1925· 1 entry
Purchased the George Grey Barnard collection of medieval art and cloister fragments for the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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1924· 1 entry
At the instigation of his wife, he provided crucial funding for Margaret Sanger–who had previously been a personal opponent to him due to his treatment of workers–in her work on birth control and involvement in populatio
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1921· 1 entry
Junior received about 10% of the shares of the Equitable Trust Company from his father, making him the bank's largest shareholder
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1918· 1 entry
Which was subsequently folded into the Rockefeller Foundation in 1929
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1913· 1 entry
A major initiative that investigated such social issues as prostitution and venereal disease, as well as studies in police administration and support for birth control clinics and research
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1910· 1 entry
In an attempt to "purify" his ongoing philanthropy from commercial and financial interests after the Hearst media empire unearthed a bribery scandal involving John Dustin Archbold (the successor to Senior as head of Stan
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1903· 1 entry
John III in 1906, Nelson in 1908, Laurance in 1910, Winthrop in 1912, and David in 1915
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1901· 1 entry
In what was seen at the time as the consummate marriage of capitalism and politics
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1897· 1 entry
After completing nearly a dozen social sciences courses, including one on Karl Marx's Das Kapital, Rockefeller graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University
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1874· 2 entries
In Cleveland, Ohio, the fifth and youngest child of Standard Oil co-founder John Davison Rockefeller Sr
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Born 1874-01-29.
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