discoverer

Example Sentences

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As usual, Stigler’s law—according to which no scientific discovery is named after its true discoverer—applies here.

From Scientific American

Neatly handwritten and addressed to the "discoverer", Joanna also describes her pet dog, her school projects and her love of collecting Blu Tack.

From BBC

Given recent history, one of their original discoverers, astrophysicist Duncan Lorimer of West Virginia University, does not foresee research on FRBs quieting any time soon.

From Scientific American

A contrary “top-down” view was first put forward by Nancy Kanwisher, now a professor of cognitive neuroscience at M.I.T. and Saxe’s former Ph.D. supervisor, one of the discoverers of the FFA in the 1990s.

From Scientific American

The only person who escaped this fate is Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto, some of whose ashes are making their way out of the solar system aboard the New Horizons spacecraft.

From Scientific American