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
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
The first discoverer of calculus nearly died before he ever took a breath.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
Thanks to the frigid Arctic waters, the Terror’s state of preservation shocked its Parks Canada discoverers.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
