Gilman, Daniel Coit (1831–1908)

US university administrator and geographer. A graduate of Yale University (1852), he returned to help create the university's Sheffield Scientific School (1856), later becoming professor of physical and political geography there (1863–72). He moved on to become president of the University of California, Berkeley (1872–75). At the recommendation of the presidents of Harvard, Cornell, and Michigan universities, he was chosen to be the first president of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland (1875–1902). Stressing the importance of graduate schools, he founded Johns Hopkins Medical School (1893), which immediately attracted leading physicians and top-ranked students. After retiring, he helped found the Carnegie Institute in Washington, DC (1902–05). He was born in Norwich, Connecticut;