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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