Hodgkin

Hodgkin definition - medical

Hodg·kin (hŏjˈkĭn), Sir Alan Lloyd 1914-1998.

British physiologist. He shared a 1963 Nobel Prize for research on the action of nerve impulses.
Hodgkin definition - medical

Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot 1910-1994.

Egyptian-born British chemist. She won a 1964 Nobel Prize for determining the structure of compounds needed to combat pernicious anemia.
Hodgkin definition - medical

Hodgkin, Thomas 1798-1866.

British physician who developed criteria for classifying the malignancy of a cancer. He was the first to describe (1832) Hodgkin's disease.

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