WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Hodgkin
    n 1: English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease
         (1798-1866) [syn: Hodgkin, Thomas Hodgkin]
    2: English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to
       study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994) [syn:
       Hodgkin, 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 (1914-1998) [syn: Hodgkin, Alan Hodgkin,
       Sir Alan Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin]