Hodgkin

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Hodgkin
       n 1: English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease
            (1798-1866) [syn: {Thomas Hodgkin}]
       2: English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to
          study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994) [syn:
           {Dorothy Hodgkin}, {Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin}]


       3: English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the
          role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of
          the nerve impulse (born in 1914) [syn: {Alan Hodgkin}, {Sir
          Alan Lloyd Hodgkin}]