discoverer
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The name gallium comes from Gaul, the ancient Latin name for France, honoring the nationality of its discoverer.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Alexis Okeowo, New Yorker staff writer: I was a late discoverer of Taix, stumbling upon it when I moved to a bungalow just above Sunset during the pandemic from New York.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
Then there is one final problem for the discoverer of a giant new successful drug.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2024
“At the time, the discoverer and collectors did not realize there were prey items preserved inside its stomach,” Zelenitsky says.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 8, 2023
Norman announced on his title page that he was the discoverer of ‘a newe...secret and subtill propertie’, the dip of the compass needle.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
One of the best known metallocenes is ferrocene, which helped earn its discoverers the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026
Nothing against ivermectin — if you have roundworms, it’s a fantastic drug and its discoverers won a Nobel Prize in medicine for a reason.
From Salon ● May 11, 2026
“It became clear that the name could be stigmatizing to Alaska,” says Joseph McLaughlin, Alaska’s state epidemiologist and one of the virus’ discoverers.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 10, 2024
The treatment for sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia is the first to be licensed using the gene-editing tool known as Crispr, for which its discoverers were awarded the Nobel prize in 2020.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2023
Pascal and Boyle were then hailed as the discoverers of the vacuum which, it was now held, made up most of the universe.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
