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Hodg⋅kin

[hodj-kin]
–noun
1. Sir Alan Lloyd, 1914–1998, English biophysicist: Nobel prize for medicine 1963.
2. his cousin, Dorothy Mary Crow⋅foot [kroh-foot] , 1910–94, English chemist: Nobel prize 1964.
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Hodg·kin   (hŏj'kĭn)   
British physiologist. He shared a 1963 Nobel Prize for research on nerve cells.
Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot 1910-1994.  
Egyptian-born British chemist. She won a 1964 Nobel Prize for determining the structure of compounds needed in combating pernicious anemia.
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Hodgkin Hodg·kin (hŏj'kĭn), Sir Alan Lloyd. Born 1914.

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

Hodgkin , Dorothy Mary Crowfoot. Born 1910.

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

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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