Question

A scientist with this surname wrote the introduction to Stereospecific Polymerization of Isoprene, a book based on Elena Ceaușescu’s fraudulent PhD. Giant cells with multi-lobed nuclei and an “owl’s eye” appearance characterize a disease named for a physician with this surname. Epstein-Barr viral antigens are sometimes found in cells unique to a disease named for a person with this surname, Reed-Sternberg cells. A chemist with this last name determined the (*) structures of penicillin and vitamin B12 using (10[1])X-ray crystallography, which earned her (-5[1])a Nobel Prize. This is the alphabetically former name in a doubly eponymous model derived from experiments on giant squid axons, which describes the propagation of an action potential. For 10 points, give the last name of a physician who discovered a namesake lymphoma. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Hodgkin [accept Dorothy Mary (Crowfoot) Hodgkin; accept Thomas Hodgkin; accept Alan Lloyd Hodgkin; accept Hodgkin’s lymphoma; accept Hodgkin–Huxley model; prompt on Crowfoot] (Dorothy Hodgkin wrote the introduction to Ceaușescu’s PhD.)
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Shahar SchwartzBerkeley PastStanford7610
Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BBerkeley A81-5
Swapnil GargBerkeley ABerkeley B12510

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2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo2024-11-09Y1100%100%0%43.00
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois2024-11-09Y1100%100%0%58.00
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley2024-12-06Y2100%0%50%100.50