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

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery