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hodgkin

noun /hɑddʒkɪn/ 2 syllables 7 letters Scrabble 16 WWF 17
Definitions
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English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)

noun

English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866)

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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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