HODGKIN

Hodgkin, Alan Hodgkin, Sir Alan Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

(noun) English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998)

Hodgkin, Dorothy Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin

(noun) English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)

Hodgkin, Thomas Hodgkin

(noun) English physician who first described Hodgkin’s disease (1798-1866)

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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Word of the Day

25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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