Author: Prof Tapas Chakraborty

The year 1876 is a significant mark in the timeline of the world’s scientific history. In the western hemisphere, USA’s first research university, that put the American higher education system on the path to world domination, was founded by Daniel Gilman, an educationist, blessed with the unfettered philanthropy worth $ 7 million left by the deceased businessman of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins, to start a university and a hospital. The founding of the Johns Hopkins University was the most decisive event in the history of higher education in America, where advancement of knowledge through research was integrated with teaching, and the…