Patron of Rockefeller Fellows: İhsan Doğramacı, Academic Entrepreneur and Fellowships Generator

İhsan Doğramacı was born in 1915 in Erbil (now in the north of Iraq), the son of an important family of Ottoman bureaucrats. He attended the International College of the American University of Beirut until 1932 and then studied medicine at Istanbul University, graduating in 1938. Later that year, thanks to the connections of his uncle Lutfi Kırdar, who was a doctor and the provincial governor of Manisa, he met Dr. Albert Eckstein, a prominent expert in the field of paediatrics and one of...