discoverer

I shall see that your name is coupled with the Bacillus as that of its discoverer.

Balboa resolved to make a name for himself and to be the discoverer of the other sea.

To this he now devoted himself with the passionate enthusiasm of the discoverer.

She becomes, in reality, less a discoverer than a depositary of secrets.

Even the discoverer of Quaternions found this a source of much anxiety.

He was the discoverer of nitrogen and several gaseous bodies.

Yes, the discoverer of the mine should know whether it was gold or copper.

A discoverer of America should leave Long Island to someone else.

The guess was, of course, always a triumph for the discoverer of the little tailor.

On Cardano as an investigator and discoverer, see Libri, Hist.