hodgkin

Definition of Hodgkin in English :

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1. hodgkin, thomas hodgkin

English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866)

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2. dorothy hodgkin, dorothy mary crowfoot hodgkin, hodgkin

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

3. alan hodgkin, alan lloyd hodgkin, hodgkin, sir alan hodgkin

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

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Sir Alan Lloyd. 1914–98, English physiologist. With A. F. Huxley, he explained the conduction of nervous impulses in terms of the physical and chemical changes involved: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1963)

2.

Dorothy Crowfoot. 1910–94, English chemist and crystallographer, who determined the three-dimensional structure of insulin: Nobel prize for chemistry (1964)

3.

Sir Howard. 1932–2017, British painter, noted for his brightly coloured semi-abstract works

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Sir Alan Lloyd1914-98; Brit. biophysicist

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Dorothy Crowfoot1910-94; Brit. chemist

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Egyptian-born British chemist. She won a 1964 Nobel Prize for her development of x-ray crystallography techniques to determine the structure of biologically active compounds.

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