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HOPKINS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Welsh film actor (born in 1937)
Synonyms:
Anthony Hopkins; Hopkins; Sir Anthony Hopkins; Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)
Sense 2
Meaning:
English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947)
Synonyms:
Hopkins; Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
biochemist (someone with special training in biochemistry)
Sense 3
Meaning:
English poet (1844-1889)
Synonyms:
Gerard Manley Hopkins; Hopkins
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Sense 4
Meaning:
United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873)
Synonyms:
Hopkins; Johns Hopkins
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
financier; moneyman (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)
altruist; philanthropist (someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being)
Sense 5
Meaning:
United States educator and theologian (1802-1887)
Synonyms:
Hopkins; Mark Hopkins
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)
theologian; theologiser; theologist; theologizer (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)
Context examples:
Jack Wilson, a post-doctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, led a team that reprocessed data collected from 2002 to 2009 by the neutron spectrometer instrument on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)
A research team led by Drs. Jerod S. Denton of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Peter M. Piermarini of Ohio State University, and Corey Hopkins of the University of Nebraska Medical Center set out to develop a new class of insecticides that target the mosquito kidney.
(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)
The team, which includes researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute, has used the Hubble telescope over the past six years to refine the measurements of the distances to galaxies.
(Measuring Growth of Universe Reveals a Mystery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
What this tells us is that not only are many of our immune responses shaped in the first year of life, but also that certain bacteria and allergens play an important role in stimulating and training the immune system to behave a certain way, says principal investigator Dr. Robert Wood of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
(Infant Exposure to Allergens May Help Prevent Wheezing, NIH)
This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
(Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, NCI Thesaurus)
Mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have confirmed NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft impacted the surface of Mercury, as anticipated, at 3:26 p.m. EDT.
(NASA Completes MESSENGER Mission with Expected Impact on Mercury's Surface, NASA)
Researchers of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore analyzed data on 1,442 mother-child pairs from the Boston Birth Cohort, a large observational study that aims to determine the causes of preterm birth.
(New study suggests high lead levels during pregnancy linked to child obesity, National Institutes of Health)
In their new study, a team of researchers headed by Drs. Akhilesh Pandey at Johns Hopkins University and Harsha Gowda at the Institute of Bioinformatics in Bangalore, India, used an advanced form of mass spectrometry to sequence proteins and create a draft map of the human proteome.
(Revealing the human proteome, NIH)
Asthma is an immune-mediated disease, said Sonali Bose, M.D., lead author of the study and assistant professor of medicine, pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins.
(Vitamin D may protect against pollution-associated asthma symptoms in obese children, National Institutes of Health)
Examining data collected by the ultraviolet spectrograph and energetic-particle detector instruments aboard the Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft, a team led by Barry Mauk of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, observed signatures of powerful electric potentials, aligned with Jupiter's magnetic field, that accelerate electrons toward the Jovian atmosphere at energies up to 400,000 electron volts.
(Jupiter's Auroras Present a Powerful Mystery, NASA)
