Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sir_alan_hodgkin

1 sense of sir alan hodgkin

Sense 1
Hodgkin, Alan Hodgkin, Sir Alan Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin -- (English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998))
       INSTANCE OF=> physiologist -- (a biologist specializing in physiology)