discoverer
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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
That’s good news for Johanson, now 80 and just back from Ethiopia, where he found many young people still eager to take selfies with Lucy’s discoverer.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024
Then there is one final problem for the discoverer of a giant new successful drug.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2024
It is the luck of the draw, or historical accident, whose name gets remembered as the discoverer of a new phenomenon.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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
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
Lucy will next swing past an asteroid named after one of the fossil Lucy’s discoverers: Donald Johanson.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
This is not obvious to us because in due course classical discoveries came to be linked to the names of their discoverers.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
