discoverer

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

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

Claudia was prepared to be the discoverer of great truths, Greenwich’s own heroine of the statue—and only twelve years old.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

It’s no surprise its discoverers earned a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

“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