Educating Leaders since 1876
Since its founding in 1876 as the first research university in the United States, Johns Hopkins has produced countless visionary leaders whose bold creativity has brought immense benefit to humankind.
Generation after generation of university graduates and faculty members have performed their transformative work with little public acclaim -- in laboratories, classrooms, hospital wards, board rooms, and government chambers around the world.
But many others linked with Johns Hopkins have gained international renown for their contributions to the fields of medicine, national and international affairs, business, and the arts and sciences. Just a short list would include U.S. President Woodrow Wilson; New York mayor, businessman, and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg; pediatric neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson; U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; novelist John Barth; statesman Paul Nitze; and environmentalist Rachel Carson.
Johns Hopkins is closely associated with more than 30 Nobel laureates. The first was Wilson, the 1919 Peace Prize winner who earned his doctorate in history at JHU in 1886. Fourteen prizes in medicine have gone to scientists affiliated with Johns Hopkins, including three within the past decade.
In addition, nine winners of MacArthur Fellowships (also referred to as “genius awards”) have ties to Johns Hopkins. Two of the recipients in 2008 were Adam Reiss, a university astrophysicist who was a leader in the discovery of the universe's “dark energy,” and Peter Pronovost, a Johns Hopkins physician who champions scientifically rigorous, common-sense approaches to improving patient safety.
To learn more about Johns Hopkins’ legacy of innovative and inspiring leadership, visit the university’s Web site at http://www.jhu.edu/.
