'Hodgkin' definitions:
Definition of 'Hodgkin'
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noun
English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866) [syn: Hodgkin, Thomas Hodgkin]
noun
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]
noun
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]