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Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins was an American merchant, investor, and philanthropist best known for funding the establishment of Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital, which have since become leading institutions for scientific research and medical advancements. At the time of his death, his donation was the largest philanthropic bequest ever made to an American educational institution.
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business · American businessman and philanthropist (1795–1873) · entrepreneur · philanthropist · also Johns Hopkins, Hopkins
Born 19 May 1795 · Died 24 December 1873 · Q380418
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calls and continue to keep soldiers stationed in Maryland. Hopkins also pledged financial and logistic support to Lincoln, in particular the free use of the B&O railway system. Abolitionism Hopkins
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2026· 3 entries
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory: Johns Hopkins APL Harnesses Snake Heat-Sensing Proteins for Next-Generation Sensors
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Johns Hopkins Medicine: Johns Hopkins Study Supports Personalized Weight-Loss Care for Breast Cancer Survivors
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2023· 1 entry
FACTLY rated the claim “Johns Hopkins University has foreseen a pandemic occurring in 2025” FALSE.
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2022· 4 entries
USA Today rated the claim “A ‘Johns Hopkins study’ found lockdowns in effective in preventing deaths” Missing Context.
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PolitiFact rated the claim ““Johns Hopkins University confirms: You can be vaccinated with a PCR test, even without knowing”” False.
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FactCheck.org rated the claim “"Johns Hopkins" study finds "lockdowns" had "little to no" impact on COVID-19 deaths.” Experts: Paper Is Faulty.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Johns Hopkins Does Confirm You Can Be Vaccinated With COVID PCR Test” Tech Fiction.
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2021· 5 entries
Alt News rated the claim “WEF, WHO and Johns Hopkins document shows “released dates” of COVID-19 variants” False.
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Johns Hopkins University study states that Uttar Pradesh is among the toppers in managing coronavirus pandemic across the globe” False.
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Alt News rated the claim “John Hopkins University study claims UP govt pandemic management strategy tops the world” False.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Facebook recrutiment page for Johns Hopkins” False.
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Reported claimRated It was run by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “Event 201 was run by the Johns Hopkins University in cahoots with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.” It was run by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation..
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2020· 4 entries
Snopes rated the claim “An article titled “COVID-19 Deaths: A Look at U.S. Data” was published in the Johns Hopkins student-run newspaper on Nov. 22, 2020, and subsequently retracted.” Mostly True.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A map from Johns Hopkins University that shows the spread of COVID-19 contains malware.” Mixture.
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New archival research prompted renewed scholarly debate over Hopkins’s relationship to slavery and his long-standing reputation as a staunch abolitionist
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Researchers affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, including historian Martha S
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1996· 1 entry
Johns Hopkins ranked 69th in "The Wealthy 100: From Benjamin Franklin to Bill Gates: A Ranking of the Richest Americans, Past and Present"
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1989· 1 entry
The United States Postal Service issued a $1 postage stamp in Hopkins' honor, as part of the Great Americans series
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1973· 1 entry
Johns Hopkins was cited prominently in the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel Boorstin, the Librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987
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1889· 1 entry
By the hospital board of trustees in consultation with Florence Nightingale
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1874· 1 entry
John Thomas Scharf cited the 1873 instruction letter to the hospital trustees and a city council resolution thanking Johns Hopkins for his philanthropy
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1873· 1 entry
Died 1873-12-24.
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1870· 2 entries
Made a will setting aside $7 million, (~$153 million in 2024) mostly in B&O stock, for the incorporation of a free hospital and affiliated medical and nurses' training colleges, an orphanage for Black children, and a
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Also accompanied Hopkins's obituary in the Baltimore American as a tribute in 1873
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1867· 2 entries
The same year he filed papers incorporating the Johns Hopkins Institutions, when he attempted unsuccessfully to stop the convening of the Maryland Constitutional Convention where the Democratic Party came into power and
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His instruction letter to the hospital trustees dated March 12, 1873, his will, which was quoted extensively in his Baltimore Sun obituary, and in his will's two codicils, one dated 1870 and a second dated 1873
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1862· 2 entries
“calls and continue to keep soldiers stationed in Maryland. Hopkins also pledged financial and logistic support to Lincoln, in particular the free use of the B&O railway system. Abolitionism Hopkins”
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Hopkins wrote a letter to Lincoln requesting that he not heed the detractors' calls and continue to keep soldiers stationed in Maryland
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1857· 1 entry
Founded the Peabody Institute in Baltimore
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1847· 1 entry
And chairman of the Finance Committee in 1855
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1812· 1 entry
At the age of 17, Hopkins left the plantation to work in his uncle Gerard T
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1795· 1 entry
Born 1795-05-19.
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