Definition of "Hodgkin" :

noun: English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998)

noun: 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)