Johns Hopkins University is an American private research university founded in 1876 and
located in Baltimore, Maryland. It is considered the first research university in the United
States, with campuses in Maryland and Washington, D.C. Johns Hopkins Applied Physics
Laboratory (APL), is the nation’s largest university-affiliated research center. The non-profit
organization applies its research to areas such as air and missile defense, space science, and
medicine, among others.
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