discoverer
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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
The newly identified species has been named Tyrannoroter heberti, which means Hebert's tyrant digger, in recognition of its discoverer, Brian Hebert.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026
That’s good news for Johanson, now 80 and just back from Ethiopia, where he found many young people still eager to take selfies with Lucy’s discoverer.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024
Then there is one final problem for the discoverer of a giant new successful drug.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2024
Glenn Seaborg, the discoverer of element 94, was relaxing in his room at the Faculty Club, listening to a football game on the radio.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
Johnson, one of the discoverers of Ebola virus, preferred to talk about these events while fly-fishing.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
