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Hopkins   /hˈɑpkɪnz/   Listen
Hopkins

noun
1.
United States educator and theologian (1802-1887).  Synonym: Mark Hopkins.
2.
United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873).  Synonym: Johns Hopkins.
3.
English poet (1844-1889).  Synonym: Gerard Manley Hopkins.
4.
English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947).  Synonym: Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins.
5.
Welsh film actor (born in 1937).  Synonyms: Anthony Hopkins, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins.



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"Hopkins" Quotes from Famous Books



... symptoms. Eijkman first thought that the cortical material contained something necessary to neutralize the effects of a diet rich in starch. Later however, he changed his view and in 1906 his position was practically the view of today. In that same year (1906) F. Gowland Hopkins in England had come to the conclusion that the growth of laboratory animals demanded something in foods that could not be accounted for among the ordinary nutrients. He gave to these hypothetical substances the name "accessory food factors." ...
— The Vitamine Manual • Walter H. Eddy

... E. A. HOPKINS, a lawyer of Rochester, spoke to the eighth resolution, which asks fora committee to examine the whole subject; he said: I believe if this question was properly presented to the Legislature, we might have well grounded ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

... have been donated by individuals to educational institutions. In several instances, gifts, each approaching, or even exceeding, a million of dollars, have been bestowed. The Baltimore merchant, Johns Hopkins, gave not less than three millions of dollars to a great university, which, like Harvard, bears the name of its founder. Henry W. Sage and Ezra Cornell contributed more than a million to the endowment of Cornell ...
— The Bay State Monthly - Volume 1, Issue 4 - April, 1884 • Various

... estate at home! A small, new estate! Bought of a Mr. Hopkins, a great tallow-chandler, or some stock-jobber about to make a new flight from a Lodge to a Park. Oh no! that would be ...
— Henrietta Temple - A Love Story • Benjamin Disraeli

... Hopkins, the butler, returned a little unsteadily at a quarter to ten to learn that his mistress had engaged a "proper toff" as his footman, he was ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates


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