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Hodgkin   /hˈɑdʒkɪn/   Listen
Hodgkin

noun
1.
English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866).  Synonym: Thomas Hodgkin.
2.
English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994).  Synonyms: 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).  Synonyms: Alan Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Sir Alan Hodgkin.



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... in the Fifth Century, p. 164) suggests that a migration of Britons into Gaul had been in progress, perhaps since the days of Magnus Maximus, and that by 470 there was a regular British state on the Loire, from which Riotamus led his 12,000 men. Hodgkin (Cornwall and Brittany, Penryn, 1911) suggests that the soldiers of Maximus settled on the Loire about 388, and that Riotamus was one of their descendants. He quotes Gildas as saying that the British troops ...
— The Romanization of Roman Britain • F. Haverfield



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