Synonyms for hodgkin

Noun

1. Hodgkin, Thomas Hodgkin, doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico

usage: English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866)

2. Hodgkin, Dorothy Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist

usage: English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)

3. Hodgkin, Alan Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, physiologist

usage: English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1914)