Hodgkin
hodg·kin
noun
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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 (born in 1914)
Origin
From Hodge, a Middle English diminutive of the given name Roger + -kin.
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