johns hopkins

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A university, and in particular, a world-class school of medicine and teaching hospital located in Baltimore, Maryland

born May 19, 1795, Anne Arundel county, Md., U.S. died Dec. 24, 1873, Baltimore, Md. U.S. merchant and financier. He worked with an uncle as a wholesale grocer before establishing Hopkins Brothers wholesalers with his brothers in 1819. The firm soon prospered in several states. It freely accepted payment for goods in whiskey, which it then sold as Hopkins' Best. Hopkins retired in 1847 a wealthy man, though he continued investing in Baltimore real estate and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. In his will he left $7 million to fund the establishment of Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital; he also endowed an orphanage for African American children

a university in Baltimore

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Johns Hopkins University

Private university in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. It was founded as a graduate school in 1876 through an endowment supplied by the Baltimore merchant Johns Hopkins (1795-1873). It became coeducational after a group of women, in 1893, provided funds for the creation of a medical school. Today its school of medicine and the affiliated Johns Hopkins Hospital constitute one of the nation's leading medical research centres. Besides medicine, the university has schools of arts and sciences, engineering, public health, nursing, music, international studies, and continuing education

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Johns Hop·kins

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cänz häpkînz

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/ˈʤänz ˈhäpkənz/ /ˈʤɑːnz ˈhɑːpkɪnz/