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
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
Realizing that no one in America had thought to write a formal description of the lumbering beast, Cuvier did so, and thus became its official discoverer.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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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
Thanks to the frigid Arctic waters, the Terror’s state of preservation shocked its Parks Canada discoverers.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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