hodgkin   (TTS Sound)

The noun hodgkin has 3 senses

• Hodgkin, Thomas Hodgkin -- (English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866))


• Hodgkin, Dorothy Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin -- (English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994))


• Hodgkin, Alan Hodgkin, Sir Alan Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin -- (English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998))