discoverer

Example Sentences

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As usual, Stigler’s law—according to which no scientific discovery is named after its true discoverer—applies here.

From Scientific American

One of its discoverers, Pedro Bernardinelli, an astrophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania, conservatively estimates the object’s dusty, icy nucleus is between 62 and 125 miles long.

From New York Times

Now, those who knew him and others who never got the chance want to see him honored in the same way as some of the country’s greatest discoverers, thinkers and activists.

From Washington Post

Its discoverers argued that Toumai was the oldest hominid known to science.

From BBC

Many Italian Americans have embraced the 15th century explorer - once hailed as the discoverer of America - as a cultural hero, but not all agree.

From Washington Times