hodgkin

Noun hodgkin has 3 senses

• hodgkin(n = noun.person) thomas hodgkin - English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866);
is a kind of doc, doctor, dr., md, medico, physician

• hodgkin(n = noun.person) dorothy hodgkin, dorothy mary crowfoot hodgkin - English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994);
is a kind of chemist

• hodgkin(n = noun.person) alan hodgkin, alan lloyd hodgkin, sir alan hodgkin - English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998);
is a kind of physiologist