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discoverer

[dih-skuhv-er-er] / dɪˈskʌv ər ər /
NOUN
detector
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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

It’s no surprise its discoverers earned a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

Famous for detecting the “cool” sensation of menthol, it also detects cold temperatures and helped earn its discoverers the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2021.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 13, 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




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