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

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

He had been forged, by that deluded old teacher, into a sort of Pasteur or Curie or patient discoverer of insulin.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White