hodgkin Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866)
    Thomas Hodgkin.
  2. noun English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)
    Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin; Dorothy Hodgkin.
  3. noun English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998)
    Sir Alan Hodgkin; Alan Lloyd Hodgkin; Alan Hodgkin.

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