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Hodgkin

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Hodgkin
1. Sir Alan Lloyd. 1914--98, English physiologist. With A. F. Huxley, he explained the conduction of nervous impulses in terms of the physical and chemical changes involved: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1963)
2. Dorothy Crowfoot. 1910--94, English chemist and crystallographer, who determined the three-dimensional structure of insulin: Nobel prize for chemistry (1964)
3. Sir Howard. born 1932, British painter, noted for his brightly coloured semi-abstract works


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s disease was named after the British physician Thomas Hodgkin, who in 1832 first described this disease and its differentiating characteristics from other lymphomas.
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