noun
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
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑chemist
3. English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998)
• Syn: ↑Alan Hodgkin, ↑Sir Alan Hodgkin, ↑Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑physiologist
Useful english dictionary. 2012.