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Hodgkin

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Hodg·kin (hjkn), Sir Alan Lloyd 1914-1998.
British physiologist. He shared a 1963 Nobel Prize for research on the action of nerve impulses.
Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot 1910-1994.
Egyptian-born British chemist. She won a 1964 Nobel Prize for determining the structure of compounds needed to combat pernicious anemia.
Hodgkin, Thomas 1798-1866.
British physician who developed criteria for classifying the malignancy of a cancer. He was the first to describe (1832) Hodgkin's disease.
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