A lloyd hodgkin
[hodj-kin] /ˈhɒddʒ kɪn/
noun
sir alan lloyd, 1914–1998, english biophysicist: n-bel prize in medicine 1963.
his cousin, dorothy mary crowfoot
[kroh-foo t] /ˈkroʊˌfʊt/ (show ipa), 1910–94, english chemist: n-bel prize 1964.
hodgkin
/ˈhɒdʒkɪn/
noun
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 n-bel prize for physiology or medicine (1963)
dorothy crowfoot. 1910–94, english chemist and crystallographer, who determined the three-dimensional structure of insulin: n-bel prize for chemistry (1964)
sir howard. born 1932, british painter, noted for his brightly coloured semi-abstract works
hodgkin hodg·kin (hŏj’kĭn), sir alan lloyd. born 1914.
british physiologist. he shared a 1963 n-bel prize for research on the action of nerve impulses.
hodgkin , dorothy mary crowfoot. born 1910.
egyptian-born british chemist. she won a 1964 n-bel prize for determining the structure of compounds needed to combat pernicious anemia.
hodgkin , thomas. 1798-1866.
british physician who developed criteria for cl-ssifying the malignancy of a cancer. he was the first to describe (1832) hodgkin’s disease.
hodgkin
(hŏj’kĭn)
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 n-bel prize for chemistry. she later used more advanced computing methods to -n-lyze the structure of insulin.
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