n.
1.English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866)
2.English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)
3.English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1914)
Idiom of the Day
give (someone) the runaround
to give excuses and delays to someone
We tried to get a refund for our airplane tickets but the company gave us the runaround.