Source : WordNet®

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}]