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 Hodg·kin /ˈhɑʤkɪn/

 Hodgkin
      n 1: English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease
           (1798-1866) [syn: Thomas Hodgkin]
      2: English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to
         study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994) [syn:
          Dorothy Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin]
      3: English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the
         role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of
         the nerve impulse (born in 1914) [syn: Alan Hodgkin, Sir
         Alan Lloyd Hodgkin]