Hodgkin

[ hodj-kin ]

noun

1. Sir Alan Lloyd, 1914–1998, English biophysicist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
2. his cousin Dorothy Mary Crow·foot [kroh, -f, oo, t], 1910–94, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1964.

Hodgkin

/ ˈhɒdʒkɪn /

noun

1. HodgkinSir Alan Lloyd19141998MEnglishSCIENCE: physiologist 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. HodgkinDorothy Crowfoot19101994FEnglishSCIENCE: chemistSCIENCE: crystallographer Dorothy Crowfoot. 1910–94, English chemist and crystallographer, who determined the three-dimensional structure of insulin: Nobel prize for chemistry (1964)
3. HodgkinSir Howard1932MBritishARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Sir Howard. born 1932, British painter, noted for his brightly coloured semi-abstract works

Hodgkin

/ hŏj′kĭn /

1. British chemist who used x-ray techniques to determine the structure of several complex molecules, including penicillin (1942–45) and vitamin B 12 (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.

Example Sentences

Demicheli also had been a physicist but had switched to oncology research after his wife died of Hodgkin lymphoma in 1976.

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Mr. Hodgkin, of Eridge, some time ago had a female Manx cat sent to him.

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Mr. Hodgkin appears to think that in this direction lies the main danger which threatens the British Empire.

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Wunderlich reports two cases of Hodgkin's disease, the pseudo-leukmia developing during diphtheria.

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Mr. Hodgkin, in his fourth volume, has told it in a style which is beyond all praise.

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They deserve the epithet of "barbarous" which Mr. Hodgkin has bestowed upon them.

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