Associations to the word «Hodgkin»

Wiktionary

HODGKIN, proper noun. A patronymic surname​.

Dictionary definition

HODGKIN, noun. English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866).
HODGKIN, noun. English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994).
HODGKIN, noun. English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998).

Wise words

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.