Ira Remsen
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Ira Remsen was an American chemist who discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin along with Constantin Fahlberg. He was the second president of Johns Hopkins University.
Ira Remsen
Portrait of Dr. Ira Remsen, painted by Ira Mallory Remsen in 1926.
Johns Hopkins University
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Johns Hopkins University is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins was the first American university based on the European research institution model. The university also has graduate campuses in Italy, China, and Washington, D.C.
Johns Hopkins, the university's namesake whose philanthropic gift in 1873 established the university, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
The university model of Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany offered was replicated in the founding of Johns Hopkins University.
Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of Johns Hopkins University
Hopkins Hall on the original Downtown Baltimore campus, c. 1885