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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.
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Noun1.Hodgkin - English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866)
Thomas Hodgkin
2.Hodgkin - English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)
Dorothy Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
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)
Alan Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Sir Alan Hodgkin


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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).
Howard Hodgkin: Gagosian Gallery by Kuspit, Donald / Artforum International
Hodgkin's disease is named after Thomas Hodgkin, a 19th-century English physician.
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That's the chance Britain's oldest public gallery took when it asked Howard Hodgkin to exhibit his paintings alongside its collection.
HOWARD HODGKIN by Schwabsky, Barry / Artforum International
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