Hodgkin

American  

[hodj-kin] / ˈhɒddʒ kɪn /

noun

1. Sir Alan Lloyd, 1914–1998, English biophysicist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1963.

2. his cousin Dorothy Mary Crowfoot 1910–94, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1964.

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Hodgkin British  

/ ˈhɒdʒkɪn /

noun

1. 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. Dorothy Crowfoot. 1910–94, English chemist and crystallographer, who determined the three-dimensional structure of insulin: Nobel prize for chemistry (1964)

3. Sir Howard. born 1932, British painter, noted for his brightly coloured semi-abstract works

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Hodgkin Scientific  

/ 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.

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Example Sentences

In a recent pilot study, Williams examined tissue and cell samples taken before and after treatment from 50 people with Hodgkin lymphoma and compared them with samples from 50 healthy individuals.

From Science Daily • Mar. 2, 2026

In 1999, his youngest child, David Sokol Jr., died from Hodgkin lymphoma, a few weeks after graduating from high school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

EBV can sometimes lead to B-cell cancers, including Burkitt, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphomas, or to gastric or nasopharyngeal cancers.

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2024

Keeslee Lanfear, from Gloucestershire, was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin lymphoma at the age of 21.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2024

Francis wanted to talk to Dorothy Hodgkin, the best of the English crystallographers, while I welcomed the opportunity to see Oxford for the first time.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson