Johns Hopkins

  

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Johns Hopkins

Definitions: Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins

Noun

1. United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873).

2. A university in Baltimore.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Johns Hopkins

Synonym: Hopkins (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Johns Hopkins

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 - December 24, 1873) was a Baltimore businessman, a Quaker, an abolitionist, and a philanthropist. He left substantial bequests in his will to found the university and teaching hospital which bear his name.

Johns Hopkins was born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, the second of eleven children, on a 500 acre tobacco plantation. When his Quaker parents freed their slaves in 1807, Johns and his brother were put to work in the fields, interrupting their formal education. Johns worked for a time in his uncle's wholesale grocery business, where he fell in love with his cousin Elizabeth. Hopkins couldn't marry Elizabeth because her parents wouldn't allow it, since prejudice against first cousins marrying was strong among Quakers. Both of them agreed never to marry.

Hopkins and Jonathan Moore, also a Quaker, went into business together. The business later became Hopkins & Brothers after Moore dissolved the partnership claiming that Johns loved money too much, after which Hopkins partnered with his three brothers. Hopkins & Brothers sold various wares in the Shenandoah Valley from wagons in exchange for corn whiskey which was then sold in Baltimore as "Hopkins' Best". Later Hopkins invested heavily in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which is where he made most of his fortune. He twice put up his own money to bail out the railroad in 1857 and 1873.

When Hopkins died in 1873 with no heirs (having never married) he left $7 million (mostly in B&O stock) to found the world-famous Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, as was indicated in his 1867 will. At the time it was the single largest philanthropic donation ever.

People often mistakenly assume that his forename was "John" (much to the annoyance of alumni of the University and other informed persons). His forename is from a family surname. His great-grandmother, Margaret Johns, married Gerard Hopkins, and who named their son Johns Hopkins, whose name was passed on to his grandson.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Johns Hopkins."

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Crosswords: Johns Hopkins

Specialty definitions using "Johns Hopkins": JHU/APL. (references)

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Modern Usage: Johns Hopkins

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Movie/TV Titles

The Johns Hopkins Science Review (1950)

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Commercial Usage: Johns Hopkins

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Books

  • The Guide to Living with HIV Infection Developed At the Johns Hopkins AIDS Clinic (reference)

  • The Johns Hopkins White Papers 2002, Volume 1: Arthritis, Coronary Heart Disease, Depression and Anxiety, Diabetes, Digestive Disorders (reference)

  • Indoor Air Pollution: A Health Perspective (The Johns Hopkins Series in Environmental Toxicology) (reference)

  • In vitro epithelia and birth defects : proceedings of the workshop "Study of human birth defects using cultured epithelium" held at the Johns Hopkins Turner Auditorium in Baltimore, Maryland (reference)

  • Johns Hopkins Manual for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Nursing (reference)

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Periodicals

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Image Slideshow: Johns Hopkins

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Photo Album: Johns Hopkins

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C&GS Ship WESTDAHL In Glacier Bay heading up Johns Hopkins Inlet. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Jagged ice along the front of Johns Hopkins Glacier. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Clark Glacier - Johns Hopkins Inlet. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Departing Johns Hopkins Glacier on JOHN N. COBB. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Johns Hopkins Glacier at Glacier Bay. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore : [Floor plans of building for female nurses] / John R. Niernseé, Architect. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 18, Bazoilles, France. : Johns Hopkins Unit, caring for wounded soldiers. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Dr. Ira N. Remsen--The new president of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore / photographed by Mesny, Baltimore. Credit: Library of Congress.

Johns Hopkins University from Washington Monument, Baltimore, Md. Credit: Library of Congress.

Physical laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Johns Hopkins

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Health

McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere. (references)

In addition, in 1997 scientists at NIA's Gerontology Research Center and The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, both in Baltimore, Maryland, reported on 472 women they had followed for 16 years. (references)

NHGRI-supported investigators at Johns Hopkins University are developing a survey to determine how the public, particularly those at increased risk, understand the current information regarding inheritance of AD risk and the role of other risk factors. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Johns Hopkins

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

johns hopkins

1,270

johns hopkins university

781

johns hopkins hospital

418

johns hopkins medical center

85

johns hopkins university press

32

johns hopkins school of nursing

23

johns hopkins university medical center

5

johns hopkins pathology

4
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Anagrams: Johns Hopkins

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-h-i-j-k-n-n-o-o-p-s-s"

-4 letters: opsonins, sponsion, spookish.

-5 letters: opsonin, phonons, poisons, shnooks, siphons, sonship, sponson.

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Alternative Orthography: Johns Hopkins


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4A 6F 68 6E 73      48 6F 70 6B 69 6E 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001010 01101111 01101000 01101110 01110011 00100000 01001000 01101111 01110000 01101011 01101001 01101110 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#111 &#104 &#110 &#115 &#32 &#72 &#111 &#112 &#107 &#105 &#110 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 006F 0068 006E 0073      0048 006F 0070 006B 0069 006E 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4481748085242818277758085

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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