The Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, established in Baltimore in 1876, was the
first college in the Western Hemisphere established on the model of the
European research foundation, where research and the progression of
information were fundamentally connected to educating. Its foundation
started an upheaval in U.S. advanced education. The college is named for
its introductory supporter, Baltimore shipper Johns Hopkins, whose $7
million estate - the biggest U.S. altruistic blessing to that time - was
separated uniformly to back the foundation of both the college and The
Johns Hopkins Hospital.