huggins in English

noun

family name; Charles Brenton Huggins (1901-1997), Canadian-born American physiologist, surgeon and cancer researcher who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1966 (together with Peyton Rous) for his discovery that hormones could be used to control the spread and treat some cancers (such as cancer of the prostate)

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1. The blood of John and Bunchy still stains the halls of Campbell Hall.” Huggins’ widow, Ericka Huggins, was the 20-year-old mother of an infant daughter at the time of the shooting.

2. One of the people who went to his aid was his friend and fellow soccer player David Huggins.

3. LAPD officer views chalk outlines of the bodies of John Huggins and Bunchy Carter via Wikimedia Commons.

4. Here is supposed to compensate for the lack of a non-combinatorial entropy contribution in the Flory-Huggins treatment.

5. The move toward an Affiliation of Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, Huggins Hospital in Wolfeboro and Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough is taking a big step forward with submission of a filing with the Charitable Trusts Unit of the NH Attorney General's Office, detailing the terms of …

6. For there is good reason to believe that this Yankee team is a rare prize for the baseball connoisseur: it may well be the best Yankee team that ever played ball, better than the best Joe McCarthy ever managed, better even (oh, sacrilege!) than Miller Huggins' heroic Buckoes of 1927.