codiscoverer

American  

[koh-di-skuhv-er-er] / ˌkoʊ dɪˈskʌv ər ər /

noun

1. one of two or more joint discoverers.

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Etymology

Origin of codiscoverer

First recorded in 1870–75; co- + discoverer

Example Sentences

Those who have heard of Wallace know him primarily as the codiscoverer, with Darwin, of natural selection.

From Salon

One of these pancake batfishes lives in the northern Gulf where oil is already spreading from the Deepwater Horizon blowout, says ichthyologist Prosanta Chakrabarty of Louisiana State University’s Museum of Natural Sciences in Baton Rouge, a codiscoverer of the species.

From US News

When James Watson, codiscoverer of the double helix, had his genome fully sequenced in 2008, there was one piece of DNA he insisted the lab not tell him about: whether he had a genetic variant that significantly increases the chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

From Newsweek

But last week, Glenn T. Seaborg, codiscoverer of plutonium, and leading chemist of the Manhattan Project, released a gob of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among those thus recently honored: Arthur Edwin Kennelly, 74, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, onetime assistant to Thomas A. Edison, codiscoverer of the radio-reflecting region of electrified air called the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer; the Mascart Medal, awarded every three years by the Societe Franchise des Electriciens: for contributions to pure science and for services on international commit tees whose efforts culminated last sum mer in the adoption of the centimetre-gram-second system of units by the Inter national Electrotechnical Commission.

From Time Magazine Archive