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Noun hodgkin has 3 senses
- Hodgkin, Thomas Hodgkin - English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866)
--1 is a kind of doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico
- Hodgkin, Dorothy Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin - English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)
--2 is a kind of chemist
- Hodgkin, Alan Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin - English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1914)
--3 is a kind of physiologist
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