Dorothy Hodgkin do·rot·hy·hodgkin uncommon noun 1. English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994) SynonymsHodgkinDorothy HodgkinDorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin Related words Broader terms chemist WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved.