Noun: Hodgkin hódj-kin
- English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866)
- Thomas Hodgkin
- English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998)
- Alan Hodgkin, Sir Alan Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
- English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)
- Dorothy Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
Derived forms: Hodgkins
Type of: chemist, doc [informal], doctor, Dr., MD, medico [informal], physician, physiologist, sawbones [informal]
Encyclopedia: Hodgkin, Frank