Found 1 items, similar to Hodgkin.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: Hodgkin Hodgkin n 1: English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866) [syn: Thomas Hodgkin] 2: English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994) [syn: 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 (born in 1914) [syn: Alan Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin ]