Hodgkin (n.)

  1. English physician who first described Hodgkins disease (1798-1866)

    [ Syn: hodgkin , thomas hodgkin ]

  2. English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)

    [ Syn: hodgkin , dorothy hodgkin , dorothy mary crowfoot hodgkin ]

  3. English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998)

    [ Syn: hodgkin , alan hodgkin , sir alan hodgkin , alan lloyd hodgkin ]

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