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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 nerve cells.

Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot 1910-1994.
Egyptian-born British chemist. She won a 1964 Nobel Prize for determining the structure of compounds needed in combating pernicious anemia.
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Noun1.Hodgkin - English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866)
2.Hodgkin - English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)
3.Hodgkin - English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998)


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There is no question that Hodgkin is a vitalist and that aesthetic painting is alive and well in his work, but one has to consider the possibility that his work decadently recapitulates its own history (of which Hodgkin is quite conscious).
Hodgkin's disease is named after Thomas Hodgkin, a 19th-century English physician.
That's the chance Britain's oldest public gallery took when it asked Howard Hodgkin to exhibit his paintings alongside its collection.
 
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