Hodgkin
[ hodj-kin ]
/ ˈhɒddʒ kɪn /
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noun
Sir Alan Lloyd, 1914–1998, English biophysicist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.
his cousin, Dorothy Mary Crow·foot [kroh-foot], /ˈkroʊˌfʊt/, 1910–94, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1964.
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British Dictionary definitions for Hodgkin
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 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
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Scientific definitions for Hodgkin
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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