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
He thus missed the chance, half a century ahead of anyone else, to be the discoverer of dinosaurs.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Asteroids can be named by their discoverers once their orbits are sufficiently known.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
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
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
They were the discoverers of the strain, and it seemed that they would have the chance to give it a name, provided they could isolate it, and provided it didn’t isolate them first.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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