Added 10 October 2026
hodgkin
noun
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- English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866).
- English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994).
- English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998).