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Rockefeller Foundation funds the creation of the field of molecular biology.

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The foundation pours money into the emerging field, thereby creating an academic discipline that informs the course of medical advancement. In particular, the field of molecular biology emerges from the fields of genetics and biology (as they are understood during the period of eugenics research).