Johns Hopkins

American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and abolitionist (1795–1873)

Johns Hopkins is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.

The record lists Johns Hopkins as American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and abolitionist (1795–1873).

Johns Hopkins was born at Gambrills in 1795. His recorded nationality is the United States.

The eighteenth century organised knowledge into academies, expeditions and collections, and turned patronage into something closer to a profession.

He worked as entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.

Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

Johns Hopkins died in 1873, aged 78. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.

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