ROCKEFELLER

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• ROCKEFELLER (noun)
  The noun ROCKEFELLER has 1 sense:

1. United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)

  Familiarity information: ROCKEFELLER used as a noun is very rare.

• ROCKEFELLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

John D. Rockefeller; John Davison Rockefeller; Rockefeller

Instance hypernyms:

industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)

altruist; philanthropist (someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being)

 Context examples 

To better understand this process, Menachem Katz, a researcher at Rockefeller University, looked to C. elegans CEPsh glial cells, which he suspected to be the worm equivalents of astrocytes.

(Research on repetitive worm behavior has implications for understanding human diseases, National Science Foundation)

Originally disseminated by Detweiler and carried by Furth (1928-1936) and the Rockefeller Institute for subsequent generations.

(AKR/J Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived from Rockefeller Swiss mice that were disseminated to the Institute of Cancer Research in Philadelphia (1948).

(ICR BR Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

A team led by Dr. Andreas Keller of Rockefeller University set out to determine the resolution of the human olfactory system by testing how well humans could distinguish mixes of odors.

(Humans Can Identify More Than 1 Trillion Smells, NIH, US)

A team of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Rockefeller University has been exploring a different approach.

(HIV Immunotherapy Promising in First Human Study, NIH)

Now, scientists at Rockefeller University have identified a brain circuit that underlies repetition, a finding that may shed light on compulsive behavior in humans.

(Research on repetitive worm behavior has implications for understanding human diseases, National Science Foundation)

We backed up to a grey old man who bore an absurd resemblance to John D. Rockefeller. In a basket, swung from his neck, cowered a dozen very recent puppies of an indeterminate breed.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)