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HODGKIN

Definition:

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