Hopkins
Americannoun
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Anthony, born 1937, English actor, born in Wales.
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Sir Frederick Gowland 1861–1947, English physician and biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1929.
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Gerard Manley 1844–89, English poet.
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Harry Lloyd, 1890–1946, U.S. government administrator and social worker.
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Johns, 1795–1873, U.S. financier and philanthropist.
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Mark, 1802–87, U.S. clergyman and educator.
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a city in SE Minnesota.
noun
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Sir Anthony. born 1937, Welsh actor: his films include Bounty (1984), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Shadowlands (1994), Nixon (1995), and Hannibal (2001)
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Sir Frederick Gowland (ˈɡaʊlənd). 1861–1947, British biochemist, who pioneered research into what came to be called vitamins: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1929)
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Gerard Manley. 1844–89, British poet and Jesuit priest, who experimented with sprung rhythm in his highly original poetry
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Harry L ( loyd ). 1890–1946, US administrator. During World War II he was a personal aide to President Roosevelt and administered the lend-lease programme
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Tinglong Dai, a business professor at Johns Hopkins University, said that it’s gotten harder for websites to keep up with rapid changes in how AI searches the internet for information.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Tyler, born Gaynor Hopkins, died in July aged 75 after undergoing emergency intestinal surgery in Portugal earlier this year.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
“He was transferred to Johns Hopkins for further monitoring and is responding well to treatment,” Murphy’s chief of staff, Allison Herwitt, said in a statement.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
To establish that BFT and claudin-4 truly bind to each other, the Johns Hopkins researchers collaborated with structural biologists F. Xavier Gomis-Rüth and Ulrich Eckhard at the Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Johns Hopkins University was only five miles from where Mary grew up, but it might as well have been a world away.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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