Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
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| 1. | Sir Alan Lloyd. 1914--98, English physiologist. With A. F. Huxley, he explained the conduction of nervous impulses in terms of the physical and chemical changes involved: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1963) |
| 2. | Dorothy Crowfoot. 1910--94, English chemist and crystallographer, who determined the three-dimensional structure of insulin: Nobel prize for chemistry (1964) |
| 3. | Sir Howard. born 1932, British painter, noted for his brightly coloured semi-abstract works |
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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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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. |
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sir alan lloyd hodgkin
English physiologist and biophysicist, who received (with Andrew Fielding Huxley and Sir John Eccles) the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the chemical processes responsible for the passage of impulses along individual nerve fibres.
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