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JOHNS

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Overview

JOHNS (noun)
  The noun JOHNS has 1 sense:

1. United States artist and proponent of pop art (born in 1930)play

  Familiarity information: JOHNS used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


JOHNS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

United States artist and proponent of pop art (born in 1930)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Jasper Johns; Johns

Instance hypernyms:

artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)


 Context examples 


A group led by Dr. Robert Yolken at Johns Hopkins University has been studying the links between viral infections and brain development.

(Algal Virus Infects, Affects Humans, NIH)

However, the findings may point to possible treatments for hair loss/graying and skin wounds in people, the team from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore said.

(New Experimental Drug Reverses Hair Loss, Skin Damage, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

According to researchers at the Smithsonian Institution and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, rain on Mars once carved river beds and created valleys much like rain on Earth has, and does.

(Heavy Rain May Have Once Fallen on Mars, VOA)

We expected more symmetry between the southern and northern summer, said Elizabeth Turtle of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) team that captured the image.

(Cassini's Final View of Titan's Northern Lakes and Seas, NASA)

Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, report that streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short-lived water vapor.

(Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon, NASA)

The study was conducted by Xiaobing Wang, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, and colleagues.

(Acetaminophen exposure in pregnancy linked to higher risk of ADHD, autism, National Institutes of Health)

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, examined high-resolution compositional data from more than 100 gully sites throughout Mars.

(Mars Gullies Likely Not Formed by Liquid Water, NASA)

The team, which includes researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute, has used the Hubble telescope over the past six years to refine the measurements of the distances to galaxies.

(Measuring Growth of Universe Reveals a Mystery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

What this tells us is that not only are many of our immune responses shaped in the first year of life, but also that certain bacteria and allergens play an important role in stimulating and training the immune system to behave a certain way, says principal investigator Dr. Robert Wood of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

(Infant Exposure to Allergens May Help Prevent Wheezing, NIH)

Jack Wilson, a post-doctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, led a team that reprocessed data collected from 2002 to 2009 by the neutron spectrometer instrument on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)



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