[hodj-kin] 
| 1. | Sir Alan Lloyd, 1914–1998, English biophysicist: Nobel prize for medicine 1963. |
| 2. | his cousin, Dorothy Mary Crow⋅foot [kroh-foo t] , 1910–94, English chemist: Nobel prize 1964. |
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.
| Hodgkin (hŏj'kĭn) Pronunciation Key
British chemist who used x-ray techniques to determine the structure of several complex molecules, including penicillin (1942-45) and vitamin B12 (1948-56). For this work she received the 1964 Nobel Prize for chemistry. She later used more advanced computing methods to analyze the structure of insulin. |