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discoverer

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

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

Thus, to take an example at random, Leonardo Pisano, known as Fibonacci, is the supposed discoverer of the Fibonacci number series.

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

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

In the early eighteenth century scientific laws begin for the first time to be named after their discoverers.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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