Hodgkin


Sir Alan Lloyd, 1914–1998, English biophysicist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
his cousin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot
[kroh-foo t] /ˈkroʊˌfʊt/ (Show IPA), 1910–94, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1964.
Contemporary Examples

Demicheli also had been a physicist but had switched to oncology research after his wife died of Hodgkin lymphoma in 1976.
How Big Pharma Holds Back in the War on Cancer ProPublica April 22, 2014

Historical Examples

Mr. Hodgkin, in his fourth volume, has told it in a style which is beyond all praise.
Naples Past and Present Arthur H. Norway

When you were a widow, and Baby and the pony were orphans, you and Mrs. Hodgkin would be sorry.
Once a Week Alan Alexander Milne

Mr. Hodgkin appears to think that in this direction lies the main danger which threatens the British Empire.
Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 Evelyn Baring

Dr. Hodgkin’s “Tribune instead of Prefect” seems scarcely admissible grammatically.
Early Britain–Roman Britain Edward Conybeare

Dr. Hodgkin pronounces it, “One of the highest inspirations of statesmanship that the world has witnessed.”
Constantinople painted by Warwick Goble Alexander Van Millingen

Mr. Hodgkin, of Eridge, some time ago had a female Manx cat sent to him.
Our Cats and All About Them Harrison Weir

Wunderlich reports two cases of Hodgkin’s disease, the pseudo-leukmia developing during diphtheria.
A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Various

They deserve the epithet of “barbarous” which Mr. Hodgkin has bestowed upon them.
Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 Evelyn Baring

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 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1963)
Dorothy Crowfoot. 1910–94, English chemist and crystallographer, who determined the three-dimensional structure of insulin: Nobel 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 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.
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 Nobel Prize for chemistry. She later used more advanced computing methods to analyze the structure of insulin.

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