Jan 01 1953Harvard’s School of Public Health receives the first Foundation grant for a family planning project. In 1960, Johns Hopkins receives the second.
Jan 01 1952A decade of awards begins to scholars in international relations and in legal and political philosophy.
Jan 01 1952A $112,000 grant enables Dorothy Thomas and Simon Kuznets to undertake the first analysis of US population change, capital formation and economic activity.
Jan 01 1952John D. Rockefeller III becomes chair of the board of trustees and serves until 1971. Dean Rusk becomes president and serves until 1961.
Jan 01 1951Max Theiler of the Foundation’s Virus Laboratory in New York City wins the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for developing the yellow fever vaccine.
Jan 01 1950The Foundation begins its support of historical research in areas of contemporary significance. Over the next decade, it will spend nearly $7 million to support research, including interdisciplinary and interpretive work including that done by the scholars Toynbee, Braudel and Barraclough and the editing and publication of papers of American statesmen: Hamilton, Madison, Lincoln and Wilson.
Jan 01 1950A Foundation supported cooperative agricultural development program, similar to that developed in Mexico, begins in Colombia under Dr. Lewis M. Roberts.
Jan 01 1950The Foundation initiates broad-scale support for research in genetics with grants to establish centers and build entire departments at the California Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Columbia University, universities in Indiana, Texas, Wisconsin and many locations abroad.
